5L coverage for sanitation workers in fatal accidents

Bhopal: State urban development and housing minister Bhupendra Singh had announced that in case of accidental death of a sanitation worker on regular pay scales in urban bodies, their family will get an insurance amount of Rs 5 lakh.The sanitation workers on regular pay scale in urban bodies at present get an insurance amount of Rs 1 lakh on normal death and Rs 2 lakh on accidental death. Minister Singh has told that the officers and employees appointed in the urban bodies after January 1, 2005, will get the benefits of death-cum-retirement gratuity under the National Pension Scheme like government officials.TNN