Sewage deaths: Kejriwal to meet DJB officials

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has called a meeting with executive engineers and senior officials of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on August 22, in the wake of the death of nine sanitation workers.
In three separate incidents within a month, nine people have died while cleaning sewer lines and septic tanks in the national capital.
"The chief minister has called an emergency meeting over (the recent) deaths. The meeting will be held on August 22. All executive engineers and top officials of the DJB have been asked to attend the emergency meeting," a senior government official said.
Earlier this month, the chief minister had announced compensation of Rs 10 lakh and job to a member of the families of the three workers who died while cleaning a sewer pipe in Lajpat Nagar.

The issue of sanitation workers' deaths was also raised in the session of the Delhi Assembly last week, where Water Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam had said that the government was framing new parameters so that there was no such incident in future.
Under new parameters, the responsibility of the officers and contractors concerned will be fixed.
Recently, the DJB's Karamchari Union urged Kejriwal to prevent such incidents by not engaging untrained workers under contractors for cleaning sewage.