The City corporation officials have been directed to prepare a note on how
to regularise their services and payment of pending wages for 48 months.
Victory for Kalaburagi pourakarmikas
Pourakarmikas working on daily wages in Kalaburagi City
Corporation scored a major victory in their long-drawn struggle for
regularisation of their services. Urban Development Minister Vinaykumar Sorake
directed the City Corporation officials to prepare a note on how to regularise
their services and payment of pending wages for 48 months.
Former Minister S.K. Kanta and Karnataka Pranta Raita Sangha
(KPRS) president Maruti Manpade represented the pourakarmikas in a meeting
convened by Mr. Sorake in Bengaluru on Friday, along with the Municipal
Administration and Minority Affairs Minister Qamarul Islam, Commissioner of
Kalaburagi City Corporation Shrikant Kattimani and other officials.
Mr. Kanta said during the meeting, that documents indicating
that pourakarmikas executed the work of permanent employees were submitted to
the Minister. An order passed by the High Court upholding the stand of the
pourakarmikas that they were daily-wage earners was also submitted in the
meeting.
The city corporation authorities also agreed to pay Rs. 1 lakh
as compensation to family members of pourakarmika Ningamma, who had died on
January 15.
Mr. Manpade said that he, along with Mr. Kanta, later met Home
Minister K.J. George and submitted a memorandum seeking disciplinary action against
the Circle Inspector attached to the Brahmpur Police Station who had reportedly
ordered lathi charge on the pourakarmikas staging a dharna.
The pourakarmikas took out a “victory” procession in Kalaburagi
on Saturday morning. They said the city corporation should take a sympathetic
approach towards pourakarmikas working on daily wages and try to find a
permanent solution.
THE HINDU - January 24,
2015 18:39 IST
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