PATNA, July 28 -- Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday announced the formation of Bihar State Safai Karmachari Commission, in yet another welfare initiative ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections in Bihar. The commission will advise the government on measures for protection, welfare, rehabilitation and social uplift of sanitation workers in the state, besides redress all of their grievances. "I have issued the direction for the constitution of the commission comprising a chairman, a vice chairman and five members, including one from the woman/transgender community. The commission will give recommendations for bringing the deprived section of the society to the mainstream by working for their economic and social uplift," the CM wrote in a post on X. He said that the commission would also review the welfare schemes related to the sanitation workers and work for their effective implementation. The sanitation workers have been agitating for years in support of their demands and they have also staged demonstrations in the state capital, demanding regularisation of their service from contractual employment, better salary and service conditions, jobs on compassionate ground. In many previous instances, the Patna High Court also had to intervene. In 2022, the long strike was called off following the direction of the division bench headed by the then chief justice Sanjay Karol. The HC had asked agitating sanitation workers of municipal bodies to end their indefinite strike, which had led to heaps of garbage on the roads, and directed the state government to look into their demands....