TEAM HERALD
MARGAO: Smiles lit the faces of the 170 Margao’s daily wage workers on Tuesday after the Margao Municipal Council cleared their wages for the month of August.
The workers employed by MMC for door-to-door waste collection, however, hope that the Council will pay them the wages of September at the earliest before the Diwali festival.
Member of the Margao Solid Waste Management Cell Savio Coutinho personally thanked Chief Officer Narayan Sawant for making the arrangements to disburse wages of the workers. “I, along with the workers, am happy that the civic body has cleared the payments, finally. I hope the municipal body will clear the wages of September in the next 10 days”, Coutinho said.
The municipality had to go in for premature withdrawal of a fixed deposit amounting to Rs 80 lakh to clear the salaries. The workers had threatened to stop work if their payments for the month of August were not cleared by September 30.
