Metrowater submits conservancy workers' scheme records to court
A vacation bench of Justice G R Swaminathan and Justice V Lakshminarayanan had called for the records last week, while taking up a PIL filed by YouTuber Savukku Shankar alleging irregularities in the award of tenders.
On Thursday, the bench said despite securing an SC order, the scheme implementing agency Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) and Gen Green Logistics Pvt Ltd named in the PIL had not impleaded itself in the case.
However, the petitioner filed an impleading petition to include them. Subsequently, DICCI and Gen Green were added as respondents.
According to Shankar, state govt allotted 524 crore for sewerage management through Metrowater and department of municipal administration. "DICCI recommended 87 people, of whom 39 are legal heirs of deceased sanitary workers and 48 people currently engaged in sanitary work for scheme. Later, 133 more were recommended, all who were members of Congress's SC/ST wing," he said.
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