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Demanding that civic workers beryllium recruited straight by the municipal corp and timely outgo of wages beryllium made arsenic per a Government Order, members of the Dharwad District Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Civic Workers and Employees Association launched an indefinite agitation successful Dharwad connected Wednesday.
The protestors launched the indefinite day-and-night dharna successful beforehand of the bureau of the municipal corp successful Dharwad and raised slogans against some the municipal corp and the State authorities for their nonaccomplishment to code the long-pending issues.
The protesting civilian workers said that portion 10 municipal corporations successful the State person already cancelled outsourcing contracts for sanitation work, the Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) has ignored the government’s directive and allowed continuation of the signifier of outsourcing.
Leading the protest, territory president Vijay Guntral pointed retired that connected October 10, 2023, the wide assemblage of the municipal corp passed a solution astir paying nonstop wages to 799 outsourced civic workers.
The resolution, however, has been rejected by the Secretary of the Urban Development Department yielding to governmental pressure, helium said.
Mentioning that the existing pourakarmias are forced to enactment nether changeless fearfulness of losing their jobs, the protestors urged the State authorities to instantly cancel outsourcing and straight enlistee civic workers.
Gangamma Sidramapur, Kanakappa Kotabagi and others led the indefinite protest. The protestors besides pointed retired that due to the fact that of harassment by the outsourcing agencies, 1 of the pourakarmikas made an effort to extremity his life.
