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About 40 outsourced employees kept for the work of cleanliness, lighting and drinking water etc. of the city kept taking their payment from Nagar Panchayat Sahpau without giving attendance. After the end of the tenure of former Nagar Panchayat President Vipan Kumar, when the outsourced employees came to collect the outstanding salary, his name was not found in the verified new list. The employees have complained about the matter to the DM. The officer-in-charge Collectorate has handed over the investigation of the case to Additional District Magistrate Justice Mohammad Moinul Ismail.
The tenure of former Nagar Panchayat President Vipan Kumar ended on January 3, 2023. Thereafter, salaries were not released to the outsourced employees. Outsourced reached the Nagar Panchayat office on this. TC Harendra Singh and Outsourced Employees Office Assistant Ajay Shukla told Lalit Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Pooja and Shankar Lal etc. that their names are not in the verified new list of outsourced employees. The outsourced employees started arguing over this. The employees complained about the matter to the DM on March 6.
In the absence of the DM, Collectorate Hathras, who is conducting the public hearing in the DM’s office, handed over the investigation of the case to SDM Mohammad Moinul Ismal. When the SDM reached to investigate, it was found that the outsourced employees did not have any attendance register in the Nagar Panchayat office. When the SDM talked to the outsourced employees, they told the SDM that they have been working in the Nagar Panchayat continuously for the last five years. They are not being paid salary for the last three months. The employees have written a letter to the DM and appealed to get the matter investigated. There has been a demand to blacklist the outsourced agency if found guilty and to take action against the employees if found guilty.