Mayawati to raise 6800-strong team to guard monuments

LUCKNOW: UP is all set to raise a 6,800-strong exclusive workforce of employees to maintain and manage memorials of dalit icons in Lucknow. To be recruited under the supervision of a high-powered panel, the force will be headed by a manager holding an MBA degree.

The state government issued a notification to this effect on September 25. The recruitments would be done by 'Management, Security and Maintenance Samiti for Memorials' with top officials from housing, law and home departments on its board.

The employees, however, would be under the jurisdiction of the housing department which will have a dedicated corpus to pay salaries and other expenses, top government sources told TOI. To be headed by a chief manager, having an MBA degree and an experience of 15 years in management, the force will include engineers, librarian, and a battery of class IV employees. Precisely, there would be 6,805 employees.