September 27, 2020 9:02 AM

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Bombay HC slams BMC for deducting salaries of visually-impaired staff

<span style="color: #222222;">Bombay High Court has asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) if it had made any arrangements for its physically challenged staff members to help them commute to work during the lockdown.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> <br />''A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni asked the civic body how it expected these staff members to report to work in the absence of such travel arrangements. The bench was hearing a Public Interest Litigation filed by the National Association for the Blind over the BMC not paying its 268 visually-impaired civic employees their full salaries during the lockdown period. The high court asked the civic body to place on an affidavit, the travel arrangements it had made for its disabled employees.</span><br />

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