FCI labour earns up to Rs 4 lakh a month, double its MD’s pay. Owing to an incentive system and the widely used proxy labour, lowly workers in the Food Corporation of India (FCI) are earning a handsome salary of up to Rs 4 lakh a month, more than double the pay its chairman-cum-managing director is getting. “More than 300 loaders have received wages, including arrears, amounting to more than Rs 4 lakh in August last year. The report says each loader, a permanent employee of the FCI, earns an average salary of Rs 79,500, equivalent to that of senior category-1 officers like assistant and deputy general managers. The report has recommended getting rid of these loaders, which number around 16,000 throughout the country. Reacting to the development, FCI general manager Aseem Chhabra said, “There are some depots in Maharashtra where their earnings are from Rs 1 lakh to 1.5 lakh every month. They earn in proportion to the work they do. They indulge in heavy work the entire day, lifting grain bags on their back and taking them from one place to another.”
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 07:37:58 +0000
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