The Mayor of North Delhi has written to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, urging him to drop the "anti-people" conditions for the loan extended to cash-strapped municipal corporations by his government during the strike by MCD employees earlier this month.
"Funds were released by the Delhi government with many anti-common man riders such as no fresh recruitment should be done by the corporation and phase-wise removal of teachers and nurses appointed on contract basis," Ravinder Gupta said in his letter to Kejriwal.
"Removal of contractual teachers and nurses would hamper the functioning of the corporation and affect the economic condition of their families," he said.
Demanding payment of their salary and other dues, sanitation workers of the two municipal corporations had gone on a 13-day strike. Later, Kejriwal had on February 3 announced a loan of Rs 551 crore to North and East municipal corporations which are facing financial crises.
North Corporation received a loan of Rs 314 crore while East Corporation got Rs 237 crore.
