‘Cancel tenders awarded to NGOs closely associated with Minister Santosh Lad’

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District president   of Karnataka State Construction Workers Union Joint Coordination Committee Prabhudev Yelsanghi addressing presspersons successful  Kalaburagi connected  Sunday.

District president of Karnataka State Construction Workers Union Joint Coordination Committee Prabhudev Yelsanghi addressing presspersons successful Kalaburagi connected Sunday. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI

Karnataka State Construction Labours Union Joint Coordination Committee has demanded that the State authorities cancel tenders awarded to backstage entities, including NGOs.

District president of the Coordination Committee Prabhudev Yelsanghi and the erstwhile subordinate of the Construction Workers Welfare Board, Kalaburagi Division, Shankar Kattisanghavi, addressing presspersons successful Kalaburagi connected Sunday, urged the State authorities to repeal the tenders awarded to non-government organisations (NGOs) for conducting accomplishment improvement grooming programmes for organized and unorganised workers.

They said that the tenders of accomplishment improvement grooming and different schemes person been awarded to NGOs tally by adjacent associates of Labour Minister Santosh Lad. They said that the institution providing accomplishment development, learning and span grooming to workers conducted a three-hour grooming league and issued a 10-day grooming certificates to workers.

Mr. Yelsanghi demanded that the authorities summation assistance for the children of operation workers and supply ₹5 lakh fiscal assistance for the operation of houses to genuine operation workers registered with the board.

Their request besides included compensation of ₹10 lakh to families successful lawsuit of accidental decease of operation workers, implementation of Employees State Insurance (ESI) and Provident Fund (PF) schemes for operation workers and unorganized manual workers.

Mr. Kattisanghavi said that the Coordination Committee members volition conscionable Mr. Lad successful Kalaburagi connected Tuesday during his scheduled sojourn to inaugurate houses built for operation workers and taxable a memorandum with a charter of demands.

Published - October 13, 2025 07:31 p.m. IST

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