New Delhi

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has directed all its zonal offices to submit verified records of sanitation workers hired between April 2002 and April 2006 within 15 days, initiating the next stage of its exercise to identify employees who could be considered for future regularisation, officials said on Wednesday.

In a circular, the civic body asked deputy commissioners of all zones to furnish details of substitute and daily-wage sanitation workers appointed between April 1, 2002 and March 31, 2004, and between April 1, 2004 and April 10, 2006.

The MCD has sought details including employees' names, father's names, dates of birth, employee identification numbers (BMID), dates of initial engagement and verification from the zonal accounts department. The records have to be submitted in both hard copy and Excel format, the civic body said.

According to the circular, no omitted names would be entertained after the stipulated deadline and warned of disciplinary action against the concerned officials if any eligible employee is found to have been left out later.

Chairman of the Department of Environment Management Services (DEMS) Committee, Sandeep Kapoor, said the exercise was only meant to prepare a verified database of employees and should not be construed as an order for regularisation.

"We had first prepared a list of employees engaged between 2000 and 2002. After that, the proposal for their regularisation was approved, the seniority list was prepared and the process is now underway. We are following the same procedure for those engaged between 2002 and 2006," Kapoor said.

He said the exercise would help the corporation ascertain the number of eligible workers before taking further steps.

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The move comes weeks after the MCD handed over regularisation letters to 41 sanitation workers and released the seniority list of 5,750 daily-wage sanitation workers. At the event, Delhi BJP president Harsh Malhotra had said around 9,345 more daily-wage sanitation workers would be regularised in phases over the next year, according to the civic body.