HC orders north corporation to clear salary, pension dues
Hindustan TimesThe Delhi high court on Monday ordered the North Delhi Municipal Corporation to immediately pay the remuneration owed to more than 80,000 of its employees and pensioners, refusing to give the civic body more time to clear the over ₹400 crore amount due. The bench of justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, during the hearing, also criticised the Delhi government for not releasing funds to the civic agencies, thereby deepening the crisis. It asked for modification of the court’s March 9 order, by which the three MCDs were ordered to clear salary, arrear and pension dues by April 5. Advocate Divya Prakash Pande, representing the north civic body, had submitted that one of the reasons of the fund crunch was non-payment of dues by the Delhi government.