GAYA: When she turned the deputy mayor of Gaya city in Bihar, after having swept its streets for many years, Chinta Devi felt the ‘metropolis of salvation’ has, lastly, offered her along with her personal deliverance. After practically two years in workplace, she finds herself again on the streets, promoting greens as a mark of protest towards the disrespect she has been made to allegedly put up with.
She requested, “What’s the level in my being deputy mayor if I’m not saved within the loop in regards to the goings on within the municipal company?” Devi, who labored for 35 years as an worker (sweeper) of the Gaya Municipal Company, was elected deputy mayor of Gaya in December 2022, two years after her retirement.
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Speaking to media individuals on Tuesday, Devi mentioned, “I’m very upset with the angle of the administration of the Gaya Municipal Company. I’m not even invited for conferences held within the Company. Officers do not even inform me in regards to the schemes being run by the Company within the metropolis.” She alleged that she has not been paid wage of the deputy mayor for the final a number of months.
“That is the rationale that I made a decision to promote greens on the streets of Gaya. It is higher to promote greens than sitting within the Municipal Company workplace with none work,” Devi mentioned. Everybody was shocked to see Devi promoting greens at Kedar Nath market on Tuesday and an enormous crowd gathered round her.
“I can earn cash by promoting greens though I get my pension as a retired worker of the municipal company. However I’m not being offered any of the amenities by the company for which I’m entitled to because the deputy mayor,” she claimed.
Regardless of repeated makes an attempt, senior municipal officers of Gaya weren’t out there for his or her feedback on the costs levelled by Devi.
