Daily wage workers complain of neglect by MCC

February 23, 2011

Mangalore, February 23: The daily wage earners working for Mangalore City Corporation will hold a begging protest under the banner of Dakshina Kannada District Paurakarmikas and Fourth Grade Employees' Association in front of MCC building on Saturday, February 26, demanding regularisation of their service.

Revealing this at a press meet here on Wednesday, Association President Gangadhar said that the daily wage workers, who have been waiting for the regularisation of their service since couple of decades, have reached a desperate condition and their pleas have been completely neglected by the government and MCC.

He said that successive governments have failed to solve the decade-old problem of daily wage workers, who have been deprived of their basic human rights.

Currently there are 225 regularised paurakarmikas working under MCC excluding 64 members whose regularisation proposal was not approved by the state government.

Apart from them there were 139 daily wage workers who had served for around 15 years with a desire to be regularised but in vain. 15 among them have already died during the course of their service.

Pathetic condition:

The daily wage workers are spending their life for cleaning the city without any protective gear, hand glows and shoes, said Suresh, the Secretary of Association.

“The government stopped providing hand glows and protective shoes to them over five years ago. Now they are working bare-handed” he said.

Commissioner didn't care

Expressing frustration over the attitude of MCC towards the civic workers, Suresh said that although a large number of Paurakarmikas staged a demonstration protesting the delay in releasing the treatment expenses, keeping the dead body of their colleague, who had died at a hospital after collapsing while undertaking cleaning work, the MCC Commissioner did not pay attention to it. “He did not care” Suresh said.

B Shivappa, Honourary President of the Association, Thokra, Advisor, Sharad, Former President were also present.

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