Pay your staff on time, Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon commissioner to contractors

GURGAON: Short of staff, the Municipal Corporation
of Gurgaon (MCG) has several outsourced employees who have complained
to the municipal commissioner that the contractors who hired them had
not been paying their salaries on time.

Newly-appointed MCG commissioner Ashok Sangwan
on Thursday issued a show cause notice to two contractors asking them
why their contract should not be terminated. Other contractors have also
been directed to pay salaries to their employees on time, failing which
their contract will be terminated.

“Since the state government
has not been hiring in recent times, we are short of staff and have to
depend on private agencies for manpower on contract. Most of the
outsourced employees are clerks, drivers and peons. While we disburse
the amount to the private agency owners on time, they have failed to do
so to their employees. Many such employees have not received their
salaries for months,” said a spokesperson of the civic body.

“The commissioner has ordered the private agency owners to pay salary to
their employees by the seventh of every month, failing which their
contract will be terminated. There have been few instances in the recent
past when sanitation workers went on strike because of delay in payment
of salary,” the spokesperson said.

Sangwan also directed all
the senior MCG officials including joint commissioners, chief engineer
and superintending engineers to be in office between 11 am and 1 pm
every day so that residents can meet them. “Residents are often unable
to meet officials who are either busy or not present in office,” the
spokesperson said.