The Delhi High Court raised questions on Friday about the trifurcation of the MCDs, as it directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to clear the dues of the East and North Delhi Municipal Corporation primary school teachers. The observations came after a plea was filed against the non-payments of salaries to teachers.
Describing it as "hopeless condition", a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar asked the EDMC and NDMC to clear the current month dues in a week.
"This is not a first plea in which the EDMC has expressed its inability to pay salaries. Earlier, also we heard about non-payments of salaries to the EDMC's safai karmacharis who went on strike on various occasions...
"This could not have been the intention of trifurcation of the MCD. If this is true, it needs serious examination by the authorities concerned, as every citizen of Delhi expects optimal services from the corporation," the bench observed.
The bench also directed the two corporations to clear arrears of the primary school teachers in one month. While passing these directions, the court also expressed concerns over the submissions of the EDMC counsel as he said that they are lacking funds to pay the salaries to the employees and they are the poorest among all the three MCDs.
The bench said that all the three civic bodies should be identically placed thereby directing that the issue is brought to the notice of concerned ministry who would examine the difficulties faced by the municipal bodies.
The court's directions come on a PIL filed by NGO, Social Jurist, which through its counsel Ashok Agarwal, informed the bench that the EDMC, for the last three months, has not paid salary to primary school teachers.
The plea also alleged that the NDMC has not paid salaries to its regular teachers for the last two months.
"Untimely payment of salaries of 13,500 regular teachers employed in these schools is affecting the primary education of the lakhs of children studying in these schools, belonging to the most downtrodden class of the society," the NGO's counsel claimed.
‘13,500 TEACHERS HIT’
- The plea also alleged that the NDMC has not paid salaries to its regular teachers for the last two months.
- It said, “Untimely payment of salaries of 13,500 regular teachers employed in these schools is affecting the primary education of the lakhs of children.”
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