Sanitary Staff Will Get ₹761/Day: TN to HC

The Tamil Nadu government on Monday informed the Madras High Court that the private agency, which has obtained the contract for sanitation works in Royapuram and Thiru Vi Ka Nagar zones of the Greater Chennai Corporation, will pay wages of ₹761 per day to the conservancy workers until the civil case over the outsourcing of the works is disposed of.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Chennai

Advocate General (AG) P.S. Raman made the submission before a division bench of justices M.S. Ramesh and R. Sakthivel when an appeal filed by the Uzhaippor Urimai Iyakkam against a single judge's order on the issue came up for hearing. The AG said that if the workers fail to return to work, the agency would be forced to recruit fresh workers and so, the court shall instruct them to work.