Mayor seeks Centre's help for imparting skill training to sanitation workers

North Delhi Mayor Adesh Gupta has approached the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, seeking help for imparting skill training to NDMC sanitation workers, especially women, to bring them into the mainstream, the civic body today said.

Gupta sought the assistance in a letter written to Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawarchand Gehlot, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation said in a statement.

Gupta has also sought cooperation of the ministry so that an MoU can be signed between the NDMC and organisations engaged under the ministry's control in providing job-oriented skill training, to safai karamcharis, specially women and rag-pickers, it said