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More than officials, it is the pourakarmikas who are liable for making definite that our surroundings stay clean, said Deputy Commissioner of Mandya Kumar.
Inaugurating the Pourakarmika Day organised by Mandya City Municipal Council (CMC) connected Tuesday, Mr. Kumar said that salaries and different facilities provided by the authorities to the pourakarmikas cannot beryllium compared to the services they render to the society.
Pointing retired that the pourakarmikas discharge their duties with selflessness, Mr. Kumar said that it was the work of officials to look aft the payment of sanitation workers.
Mr. Kumar advised the pourakarmikas to instrumentality attraction of their wellness portion carrying retired their duties. He said that sanitation workers indispensable deterioration information and protective cogwheel on with their uniforms portion connected duty. The pourakarmikas should request specified information instrumentality from the officials arsenic “it was their right”, helium said.
Cautioning the pourakarmikas against exerting unit connected their children to discontinue studies midway and instrumentality up the assemblage of a sanitation worker, Mr. Kumar said that they should alternatively guarantee that their children person higher education, thereby bringing them to the mainstream, and “see to it that their children go officials erstwhile they turn up”.
While pointing retired that monthly meetings are held to support the interests of pourakarmikas, Mr. Kumar said that each sanitation workers should get wellness insurance. Officials had been instructed to guarantee wellness security and supply periodic wellness check-ups to the pourakarmikas, helium added.
The Deputy Commissioner said that suitable measures volition soon beryllium taken to bring the remaining 32 outsourced sanitation workers nether nonstop outgo system. While 88 houses had been built nether a lodging strategy for the pourakarmikas, enactment for the operation of different 16 houses was successful its last stages, helium added.
Treasury serviceman of the Urban Development Department Narasimha Murthysaid that pourakarmikas should beryllium alert of the facilities provided to them by the government.
Mr. Murthy urged the sanitation workers to marque usage of the monthly meetings to rise their issues.
The authorities has begun straight depositing the salaries of pourakarmikas to their accounts, arsenic they were not receiving due salaries, Employees’ State Insurance (ESI), and Provident Fund (PF) done contractors nether the outsourced system.
Award presentation
Prizes were distributed to pourakarmikas for rendering outstanding work and to the winners of assorted sports competitions.
Scholarships were besides presented to children of pourakarmikas pursuing higher education.
Mandya CMC President M.V. Prakash, Commissioner Pampashree, and others were contiguous connected the occasion.
