Delhi Assembly elections: Arvind Kejriwal writes to PM Modi, highlights housing issues faced by sanitation workers in Delhi

“During their employment, they reside successful government-provided accommodations. However, post-retirement, they are required to vacate these homes,” helium wrote. The precocious rental costs successful Delhi permission families susceptible and the contented peculiarly affects the lower-income groups, helium added.

“The Delhi authorities volition conception houses connected these lands, and the employees tin repay the outgo of these houses successful casual instalments,” Kejriwal wrote. He urged the Centre to judge the strategy proposal, promising it would beryllium extended to different authorities employees erstwhile initiated.

At the property conference, Kejriwal highlighted that imperishable lodging is simply a large situation successful the capital, particularly for low-income groups similar sanitation workers. “Their pensions are not capable to spend rented housing, nor bash they person capable savings to bargain a location for themselves. I person seen galore safai karamcharis who, aft retirement, are forced to unrecorded successful slums. But adjacent gathering a slum is not easy.”

मेरा सपना है कि हमारे सफ़ाई कर्मचारी भाई-बहनों के पास अपना ख़ुद का मकान हो और वे सम्मान के साथ अपनी ज़िंदगी जीयें।

चुनाव के बाद हम सफ़ाई कर्मचारियों के लिए पक्के मकान बनवाएंगे। एक बार शुरू हो जाने के बाद अन्य सरकारी कर्मचारियों के लिए भी लागू करेंगे।

दिल्ली की ज़मीन केंद्र… pic.twitter.com/bh6JzmbjAN

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) January 19, 2025

Talking astir the scheme’s nonsubjective of ensuring dignity for workers post-retirement, Kejriwal, successful a station connected X, said, “My imagination is that our Safai Karamchari brothers and sisters should person their ain location and unrecorded their beingness with dignity… After the elections, we volition physique imperishable houses for the sanitation workers. Once this starts, we volition instrumentality it for different authorities employees arsenic well…. The onshore successful Delhi is nether the Central Government. I petition the Central authorities to supply the onshore and we volition physique the houses.”

The Delhi Assembly elections to elite 70 MLAs volition hap connected February 5, with the counting taking spot 3 days aboriginal connected February 8.