Bengaluru: The city may witness garbage pile ups as pourakarmikas are planning to go on indefinite strike demanding regularisation of contract workers. Thousands of pourakarmikas took out a protest rally from BBMP headquarters to Freedom Park on Thursday. They symbolically expressed their anger over the delay in regularisation by holding broomsticks.
Narayan, state president of the Karnataka Rajya Nagarapalike, Nagarasabhe, Purasabegala Pourkarmikara Mahasangha told Deccan Chronicle, "Three years have rolled ever since a bill was passed in 2014 to regularize contract pourakarmikas. We see no efforts from the state to implement the things assured in the bill."
He stated that a 15-day ultimatum has been given the state government to address their demands. "If not we have no other option but to go on indefinite strike," Narayan said.
Apart from the pourakarmikas in the city, Narayan warned that civic workers across the state will boycott work if their demands aren't met. Pourakarmikas who took part in the protest rally lamented that their salaries have been withheld for three months.
They further said that compared to permanent workers who are paid Rs 25,000 every month, contract workers get only Rs 12,000.
