The Delhi government on Saturday announced that it would constitute a vigilance committee to look into the recent deaths of sanitation workers after inhaling toxic gases while cleaning sewage lines manually. Last week, three sanitation workers who were manually cleaning a sewer line, maintained by the DJB in Lajpat Nagar, had died after inhaling poisonous gases. The government should take immediate action against these contractors," Sanjay Gehlot, president of the MCD sanitation workers union. "The workers died in all these incidents were contractual none of them were employed with the any corporation and the DJB," a senior EDMC official said. AnalysisThe fact that so many sanitation workers have died in such a short time is alarming but not surprising.

Source: dna August 13, 2017 02:15 UTC