Employees’ Salaries, Pension Paid Till December; January’s Payment Will Be Released Soon: MCD Commissioner To Delhi High Court

The Commissioner of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that the salaries and pension of civic body’s employees have been paid and cleared till December last year and payment for the month of January will be done within two to three days.

A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad was hearing a bunch of pleas moved in 2020, the wake of COVID-19, over non-payment of salaries to various employees of MCD.

Some of the petitions are moved by retired employees of the civic body raising a grievance that their pensions are not being released.

The MCD Commissioner was present in the court, after he and Finance and Urban Development Secretaries of the Delhi Government, were summoned over failure to make payment of salaries to various employees, safai karamcharis and teachers of the civic body.

Noting the submission of the Commissioner, the court listed the matter for hearing after four weeks.

MCD’s standing counsel Divya Prakash Pande requested the court to dispose of the matter in view of the assurance given on payment of salaries and pension. However, the court did not accede to the request.

Earlier this week, the bench had observed that it is unfortunate that class III and IV employees are not being paid despite assurance of making payments “from time to time.” It had noted that on December 21, 2022, the counsels appearing for contemnors - Delhi Government and MCD, had jointly stated that all payments will be released as soon as possible, preferably within four weeks.

Title: Court on its own motion v. Union of India and other connected matters