Chandigarh, November 23- The Haryana government, in order to accelerate developmental activities in municipalities after granting autonomy to urban local bodies, has now decided to give incentives to the best-performing sanitation workers.

Addressing a press conference here today, the Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal announced that the sanitation workers of civic bodies bagging a spot in the top 25 percent category in the Swachh Survekshan will receive an incentive of Rs. 12,000 annually. Additionally, sanitation workers coming in the next 25 percent category will also receive an annual incentive amount of Rs. 9,000.

He said that the incentive will be given in the next financial year and will be decided based on the performance of Urban Local Bodies during the Swachh Survekshan conducted in a particular year.

He said that this incentive amount will be provided in four installments. At the end of each quarter of the financial year, one installment will be given. This will result in sanitation workers receiving an additional amount of approximately Rs. 20 crore annually. Regular employees, contractual employees hired directly by the civic bodies, outsourced agency employees, etc will get the incentives.

Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Sh. Rajesh Khullar, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Sh. V. Umashankar, Commissioner and Secretary, Urban Local Bodies Department, Sh. Vikas Gupta, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister and Director General, Information, Public Relations, Language and Culture Department, Dr. Amit Agrawal, Deputy Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Sh. K. Makrand Pandurang, Media Advisor to Chief Minister, Sh. Rajeev Jaitly, Chief Media Coordinator, Sh. Sudesh Kataria, Media Secretary, Sh. Praveen Atreya,  Additional Director (Admn.), Information, Public Relations, Language and Culture Department, Sh. Vivek Kalia and other officers also remained present on this occasion.