Sanitation staff displaced: Yogi urged to intervene
They were living in sweeper colonies in Kanpur for decades
LUCKNOW/KANPUR: Lalji Prasad Nirmal, the president of UP Scheduled Caste Finance and Development Corporation, met chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday to seek his intervention on the displacement notice served on several sanitation workers living in sweeper colonies for decades.
“Several sanitation workers living in those colonies had met me recently and said they had been served notice by Kanpur Development Authority (KDA). I am told that an estimated 3 lakh sanitation workers have been living in these colonies since 1958. I requested the chief minister’s intervention so that these colonies are regularised and the sanitation workers living there aren’t displaced,” Nirmal said after his meeting with Yogi Adityanath.
He said there were about 25 such colonies in Kanpur where sanitation workers had been living for decades. He said the chief minister had, on his request, decided to seek report from the Kanpur authorities on the issue.
Sudhir M Bobde, the Kanpur commissioner and the chairman of the KDA board, said Nirmal had met him three days ago and submitted a memorandum involving taking a decision on the policy matter and the same was sent to the state govt.
Hailing Yogi Adityanath as a visionary chief minister for launching the Naveen Rozgar Chhatri Yojana – a scheme under which UP’s scheduled caste finance and development corporation has been tasked with employing 500 dalit youths in each of the UP’s 75 districts – Nirmal said for the first time in many districts those exploiting dalits had been tried under the stringent National Security Act (NSA).
“This is the first time that in districts like Jaunpur, Azamgarh and Lakhimpur Kheri where those who found exploiting dalits have been tried under the NSA,” he said.
Nirmal further said his corporation was working hard to ensure that 37,500 dalits were employed in all the districts under the Deendayal Swarojgar Yojana of which Naveen Rozgar Chhatri Yojana was a part.