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Karnataka State Safai Karmachari Commission president P. Raghu, connected January 22, urged civic workers (pourakarmikas) to talk openly astir their grievances, assuring them that the Commission had travel to Mysuru to perceive to their concerns and enactment towards resolving them.
He was addressing an interactive programme with civic workers and sanitation unit from municipality and agrarian section bodies of Mysuru district. The programme was jointly organised by the territory administration, Zilla Panchayat, Mysuru City Corporation, the District Urban Development Cell and the Social Welfare Department.
Acknowledging the publication of sanitation workers, Mr. Raghu said they statesman enactment earlier the remainder of nine to support cities and villages cleanable and healthy. “Do not hesitate oregon fear. Place your problems present freely. We volition instrumentality steps to resoluteness them,” helium said.
He besides clarified that civic workers are entitled to usage toilets successful immoderate edifice and warned hoteliers against obstructing them. He added that complaints regarding the proviso of poor‑quality nutrient to civic workers would beryllium taken up with the Deputy Commissioner for contiguous resolution.
Advising workers to prioritise their children’s education, Mr. Raghu said that they should not consciousness compelled to walk connected the aforesaid concern to the adjacent generation. He encouraged them to see enrolling their children successful institutions similar Morarji Desai Residential Schools, Indira Gandhi Residential Schools and Navodaya Schools. “In the future, machines and modern instrumentality volition instrumentality implicit galore civic enactment tasks,” helium noted.
Concerns raised
During the interaction, civic workers raised respective concerns. They pointed retired that the families of outsourced civic workers who dice prematurely bash not person immoderate benefits and demanded employment for their dependents. They besides sought the abolition of the roster strategy successful recruitment and requested lodging nether the Ashraya strategy for eligible workers.
Workers besides complained astir favoritism successful the regularisation process, the mediocre prime of meal provided and delays successful wage payments, which they noted were not being credited by the 5th of each month. They besides mentioned that the Dasara advance, which the City Corporation typically distributed during the festival, was not provided this year, and that uniforms had not been supplied either.
They called for the enlargement of escaped wellness check-ups to see each hospitals successful the territory alternatively than conscionable a prime few, and urged the filling of each vacant civic idiosyncratic posts wrong the Mysuru City Corporation.
At the gram panchayat level, workers said they were not receiving adjacent wage for adjacent work, were not being provided tract oregon crippled facilities and demanded that gram panchayat civic workers beryllium made permanent.
Rangegowda, associated manager of the Social Welfare Department, Priyadarshini, task manager of the District Urban Development Cell, officials from assorted departments and a ample fig of civic workers were contiguous astatine the programme.
