Thane civic body forms panel to clear arrears of contract hospital workers

The civic body in Maharashtra's Thane city has constituted a high-level committee to expedite payment of long-pending arrears to 80 contract workers of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa, an official said on Monday. The move follows a directive from the Bombay High Court to clear the dues under the ''equal work-equal pay'' principle within four weeks. Additional Municipal Commissioner Prashant Rode issued a special office order on May 5, appointing a four-member committee of senior officers to oversee the verification and disbursement process, the official said. He said that the panel has been asked to verify the list of 80 workers, calculate employee-wise wage differences, and ensure the final payments are processed after mandatory departmental audits. Rode has directed the committee to complete the entire procedure by May 14 and submit a completion report to the court, the official said. The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) was recently pulled up by the HC over the delay in implementing pay parity, despite a 2013 TMC general assembly resolution. In response, Municipal Commissioner Saurabh Rao submitted an undertaking to the court promising full payment within a month.

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