Salary raise for DTC staff on contract
NEW DELHI: Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) has managed to increase revenues. On Monday, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal awarded best performers and depots in the DTC system, and revealed that revenue generation has gone up in the past few months.
While the average earning per day was Rs 2,21,05,980 in March this year, it’s gone up to Rs 2,44,01,555 in August. “It’s an increase of Rs 2,95,575,” said Kejriwal while announcing an increase in the salaries of staff on contract.
The announcement, which comes months after contractual staff had protested at the Delhi Secretariat, will come as a welcome step for thousands of drivers and conductors working on contract. According to the DTC, there are over 4,000 drivers and 7,000 conductors working on contract.
As per the new salary structure, the government will pay around Rs 1 more per kilometer. Kejriwal added that on an average, the salary of contractual drivers will be enhanced in the range of Rs 2500 to Rs 4500 per month.
The transport minister Gopal Rai also awarded the best performing depots, which includes Ghazipur, Millennium Depot-IV, Hari Nagar, Ambedkar Nagar Depot, Rohini Depot-IV and a few more. These were selected according to their performance.
The key parameters for assessment of performance of the depots are average fleet utilization, operational ratio, kilometer efficiency, driver productivity per day in km, etc, said Rai.
He added, “Keeping in view the safety of commuters, specifically female commuters, 1500 marshals have been deployed in DTC buses. CCTV cameras have already been installed in 200 buses on which 3.75 crores have been incurred. The work for installing the CCTV Cameras in remaining low floor buses is under process.”
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