Hyderabad: As many as 3,000 outsourced employees with the GHMC were not paid salaries for three months, and it appears likely that they will face delays in the immediate future.
The corporation which was supposed to float tenders in January to hire new staff from April had put off the exercise. The tenders have still not been floated.
Taking the advantage of this, private agencies were not paying salaries to outsourcing staff working in the urban biodiversity, IT, and revenue wings.
Highly placed sources said that GHMC officials were ignoring the instr-uctions of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who had asked for middlemen to be removed from the process of paying salaries to outsourcing staff.
Mr Rao, while regularising outsourcing staff in the electricity department, has asked all governments departments to remove private agencies and directly deposit salaries into the bank accounts of outsourcing employees.
Sources said that if the contract of the private agency was to end in March, the corporation should have float tenders in January and finalised them so that the new staff could continue the work from April 1. Corporation staff, allegedly in connivance with private agencies, have violated the norms.
A senior official said that in the case of 18,000 sanitation workers, the salaries were paid directly into their accounts.
He said 18 private agencies who have been paying salaries to 4,000 security personnel had been indulging in irregularities and GHMC officials were co-operating with them.
The GHMC official said the corporation would collect the details of the agencies and blacklist them if found guilty. He admitted that the corporation had not called tenders but had given extensions which would end by June.
“Even though three months salaries were cleared on Friday, the release of salaries for the next three months will be delayed since the GHMC is yet to float the tenders,” he said.
When asked about the issue, Mayor Bonthu Rammohan said that a thorough investigation woul;d be taken up and action taken on those found guilty.
