Ahead of the upcoming MCD polls on December 4, Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta on Sunday said that if the party wins the elections again, a policy would be formulated to regularise the contractual teachers working for years.

After meeting the representatives of the Delhi Teachers Council Corporation body, Gupta said that the dearness allowance would be resumed for the contractual teachers if the party wins the polls again.

“Along with the dearness allowance, the BJP will also come up with a policy to regularize them in the next 100 days,” he said. Former chief of Delhi BJP Satish Upadhyay was also present on the occasion.

Sonu Kumar, a member of the Delhi Teachers Council Corporation, said that medical facilities should also be given to the contractual teachers who have been working for more than 20 years.

Earlier on November 25, the Delhi unit of BJP launched its 12-point manifesto for the MCD elections.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal along with Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta, manifesto committee president Satish Upadhyay, Delhi BJP in-charge Baijayant Panda, and other Delhi BJP leaders unveiled the manifesto at the Delhi BJP office.

The BJP, in its manifesto, said: “We are committed to providing all the services of the MCD to the citizens on mobile and will continue to provide better facilities to its employees.”

The saffron party also promised to take steps to bring down the level of pollution in the capital city if voted to MCD.

“We will provide housing to seven lakh poor families in Delhi in five years with the Centre’s assistance. We will further simplify rules for building houses, further reduce the property tax and also will work with RWA in participation,” noted manifesto.

The party in its manifesto also promised to regularise all weekly markets with better facilities to street vendors, unorganised labourers and marginalised sections.

“We will abolish the Nagar Nigam Factory Licence and traders will be given further exemption in license fee. We will keep on improving basic facilities in slums, rural areas, unauthorized colonies and JJ clusters,” the party mentioned in its manifesto.

The BJP further said that it would ensure self-employment opportunities, quality health facilities and dignified life for women, and “will ensure new self-employment opportunities for youth and will convert all 1,616 schools of the corporation into smart schools by 2027.”

“We will modernize Delhi’s health infrastructure and link them with the Jan Aushadhi Kendras. We are committed to providing better parking facilities and solving the problem of stray animals. We will construct 1,000 permanent Chhath Ghats by creating new water bodies and will also promote the cultural heritage of Delhi,” the party manifesto reads.