BMC to give jobs to legal heir of its employees dying on COVID-19 duty

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday said the legal heir of its employees will be given jobs in case they die while performing COVID-19 linked jobs.

Jobs will be given on compassionate grounds and depending upon educational qualifications of the next of the kin of civic employees who die while fighting COVID-19, the BMC said in a circular issued in the night.

The circular said depending upon the educational qualifications and vacancies, the legal heir will be accommodated in posts such as labourer, ward boy, peon, executive assistant and junior account supervisor.

Earlier in the day, a labour union of the BMC demanded that civic staff dying while performing duties related to the coronavirus outbreak must be given "martyr status" and all resultant benefits.