Five months’ pending salaries of 96 employees of Delhi’s historic Hardayal library have been released, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday saying there is now an “honest government” in the municipal corporation that works for commoners.
The released salaries in lump sum pertain to the five months of 2021, according to an official statement.
“On Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s direction, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) today released the salaries of 96 employees of the Hardayal Municipal Public Library (HMPL) for five months,” it said.
The over 160-year-old library in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk area was christened Hardinge Library in 1916 and boasts a rich collection of books in Hindi, English, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit.
The employees of the library had been sitting on dharna for the last 35 months as their salaries had not been paid since 2021, the statement said.
Kejriwal addressed a group of employees of the library who had gathered at the Chief Minister’s Camp Office to thank him for redressing their long-pending grievances, the statement said.
The chief minister expressed happiness over the release of five months’ salaries after a long struggle.
“A provision has been made for your salaries for the remaining period, and it will also be released soon,” he was quoted as saying in the statement.
AAP’s MLA and MCD in-charge, Durgesh Pathak, Mayor Shelly Oberoi, Deputy Mayor Aaley Mohammad Iqbal, and Leader of MCD House, Mukesh Goel, were also present on the occasion.
Kejriwal said his regime is a government of the commoners, and they understand the pain and suffering of the common people because their members also come from the same background.
