New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday was looking for responses from the Delhi Government on a request that tried to declare members of the City Sales Committee (TVC) as the Frontline Covid-19 Warrior.
“Tell your government to look into it”, Justice Rekha Palli told Delhi’s government advisory and issued a notice of the petition submitted by the Son of TVC members who surrendered to the virus in May this year.
The High Court also searched for responses from North Delhi Municipal Corporation.
The Petitioner’s father carried out important services and visited various sites even during the peak of the second wave of ongoing pandemics, advocating KawalPreet Kaur, which appeared for the court.
In the petition looking at Rs 25 Lakh as compensation for the death of his father, the son had told him that his father was a street vendor and TVC members from the North Municipal corporation in Delhi from civilians.
His work included conducting the process of recognition and registration of street vendors for the purpose of the inclusion in various welfare schemes including ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’.
“As elected members, father conducted a survey in his jurisdiction area, identified street vendors in the area, ensuring their accommodation and issuing seller certificates with street vendors who qualified.” The child said in a petition.
The request said members of such city seller committees must be declared as Frontline Covid Warriors because they physically conduct surveys from street vendors and interact with them, which greatly increases the risk of Covid-19 every day.
“The pandemic effect will definitely be long-term in nature; therefore, to support street vendors and those who include ‘city seller committees’ doing physical tasks issuing certificates, interacting with street vendors every day, relevant to the country to think of the forefront workers .
“, The petition shows that school teachers, MCD employees, police, Asha workers and nurses nurses, midwife workers have been declared the frontline worker Covid-19.
The petition also states that it is very important that each member of the implementation of members is given with adequate and quality PPE (private protective equipment), gloves given, priority vaccination.
The problem will be heard next on October 4.