KMC honours female sanitation workers

Kolkata: INTTUC affiliated to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Employees' and Workers' Union felicitated a few sanitation

workers and clerks of the civic body on International Women's Day.

State Power minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay presided over the felicitation event. This is for the first time, the services of civic body women employees and sanitation workers have been recognised.

Chattopadhyay said the motto of the Trinamool Congress government was to empower women.

Through Kanyashree, lakhs of girls could pursue their higher education, he said.

He said: "Sanitation workers and those engaged in 100-day work scheme toil to keep the city clean.

"But their work is seldom acknowledged. Women clerks of the civic body also work very hard round the year. By felicitating them we acknowledge their service inspire thousands of people."

Hundreds of civic body employees attended the

felicitation event and support the mission of women empowerment.