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Conservancy workers staged a objection and submitted a petition astatine the play grievance redressal gathering held astatine Tirunelveli territory collectorate connected Monday, urging the authorities to wantonness its determination towards privatisation successful Tirunelveli corporation.
They besides requested the authorities to instrumentality indispensable enactment to regularise them arsenic imperishable workers arsenic respective of them person been engaged successful the work for much than 23 years.
The workers were led by a VCK typical and the petition was formally submitted astatine the gathering chaired by Tirunelveli District Collector Anand Mohan.
According to the petition, much than 1,500 sanitation workers are presently employed connected a declaration ground successful Tirunelveli corp done backstage agencies. It stated that specified contractual recruitment has resulted successful workers being denied basal employment benefits specified arsenic ESI, PF, security coverage, regular period wages and paid play leave.
The workers further alleged that they are not provided with capable information equipment, contempt being engaged successful hazardous sanitation work. They besides pointed retired that due payment assistance and compensation person not been extended to the families of workers who person died successful accidents, stressing that they proceed to look occupation insecurity.
The petition urged the authorities to hole a minimum regular wage of ₹750 for sanitation workers to guarantee information benefits and to halt the privatisation process successful civic sanitation services, calling alternatively for imperishable absorption of each eligible workers.
