Rajasthan: Contractual worker ends life; govt declares Rs 10 lakh aid for kin

Manish Kumar Saini who worked as a clerk for the Advocate Generals Office allegedly died by suicide after hanging himself on the Rajasthan High Courts premises for not getting his monthly stipend for several months ANI reportedAccording to ANI following the news the state government will pay the family Rs 10 lakh stated the Advocate Generals office on FridayAdditionally the Advocate Generals office will provide Rs 1 lakh The deceaseds wife Seema Kumar Saini has also been assured of employmentAs per ANI former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has asked the state government to provide financial support to the family of the contract workerThe suicide of contract employee Mr Manish Saini in Rajasthan High Court is very sad I pray to God for peace of the departed soul and courage to the family members Mr Manish was a lowpaid contract worker The state government should ensure financial assistance to the victims family said the former Rajasthan CM to ANIDuring our government contractual service rules were made and the screening process was started to secure the future of about one lakh ten thousand contract workers The present government should immediately take the said process forward and regularise all contract workers and give them proper pay scale he addedOn Friday the deceaseds family members held a dharna on court premises The lawyers also protested and blocked the roadways outside the high courtAccording to the deceaseds brother Ravish Saini Manish wanted to become a regular employee of the High Court and that a matter involving salary payment was pending in the Supreme Court ANI reportedA case had been going regarding making him a regular employee of the High Court The case is in Supreme Court whenever he used to go for a hearing he used to only get tareekh pe tareekh date after date He used to only get Rs 4000 to Rs 45 thousand salary so all that was spent on travelling So because of that he did this he saidMoreover Sunita Saini the aunt of the deceased claimed that they very informed about the death of Manish after the workers in the court told themHis suicide note is here we got information from the workers after they called us that Manish has done this We said that he left home in a good mood he bought food too He didnt say that he had any fight or enmity with anyone in work she said to ANIShe further added that Manish had expressed in his suicide note that the Rajasthan governments inability to decide on his employment and the case were causing him great distressWe read his suicide note in that he said that Rajasthan Government has not decided on my issue and I am very troubled by the case He was in lakhs of rupees of debt and because of that he took this step she saidShe also demanded that the wife of the deceased be given a job a compensation of Rs 1 crore and support for her childrens educationWe demand that his widowed wife get a job Rs 1 crore compensation and education for the children We are demanding this for the past 8 hours the administration is so slow that nobody is listening to us she said to ANIBesides the payment for contractual staff has been revised and will be effective from October 1 2024 ANI reportedAs per ANI the salary of a stenographer has been increased from Rs 4400 to Rs 17000 The salary of junior clerk has been increased from Rs 5600 to Rs 14000 and the book lifters salarys has been increased from Rs 4400 to Rs 11000