NEW DELHI: Taking a dig at bureaucrats, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday stated IAS officers too should be paid on the foundation of the calories they require if this rule used to be applicable to labourers.
Stressing that a labourer's minimum monthly wage in Delhi which is Rs 13,500 nowadays used to be Rs nine,500 previous, he stated the committee which studied the wage hike made up our minds that labourers needed 2,700 calories an afternoon.
"I told them that a worker won't be paid based on calories. He is a human, not an animal... He has to educate his children, buy clothes... You can pay IAS officers based on their caloric needs, not labourers," he told a meeting of the Delhi Workers Conference right here on the occasion of May Day.
Relations between the AAP govt and the bureaucracy were annoying for the reason that alleged beating up of Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash by some Aam Aadmi Party MLAs.
Kejriwal stated that a committee of officers as well as representatives of labourers and contractors used to be shaped to review the subject of low wages but it surely did not get Lt Governor Anil Baijal's approval.
"He (Baijal) complained that his permit was not asked for before forming it. We said we are asking now," the Chief Minister stated, adding that once the Lt Governor's rejection, the similar committee used to be shaped with the similar contributors as previous.
"They held meetings and it took six more months to increase the (labourers') wages."
Attacking the Lt Governor, Kejriwal stated that he has read about a number of revolutions, but by no means about such "Hitlershahi" (dictatorship).
He alleged that rejecting the proposal to set up the committee to review labourers' wages uncovered Baijal's delight. "He was doing this because he was drunk on power. It made me angry but I was helpless."
Stressing that a labourer's minimum monthly wage in Delhi which is Rs 13,500 nowadays used to be Rs nine,500 previous, he stated the committee which studied the wage hike made up our minds that labourers needed 2,700 calories an afternoon.
"I told them that a worker won't be paid based on calories. He is a human, not an animal... He has to educate his children, buy clothes... You can pay IAS officers based on their caloric needs, not labourers," he told a meeting of the Delhi Workers Conference right here on the occasion of May Day.
Relations between the AAP govt and the bureaucracy were annoying for the reason that alleged beating up of Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash by some Aam Aadmi Party MLAs.
Kejriwal stated that a committee of officers as well as representatives of labourers and contractors used to be shaped to review the subject of low wages but it surely did not get Lt Governor Anil Baijal's approval.
"He (Baijal) complained that his permit was not asked for before forming it. We said we are asking now," the Chief Minister stated, adding that once the Lt Governor's rejection, the similar committee used to be shaped with the similar contributors as previous.
"They held meetings and it took six more months to increase the (labourers') wages."
Attacking the Lt Governor, Kejriwal stated that he has read about a number of revolutions, but by no means about such "Hitlershahi" (dictatorship).
He alleged that rejecting the proposal to set up the committee to review labourers' wages uncovered Baijal's delight. "He was doing this because he was drunk on power. It made me angry but I was helpless."
'Why not pay IAS officers too based on calories'
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