The Hindu 06.01.2015
Local bodies urged to provide facilities to safai karamcharis
Narayan, Chairperson of the Karnataka State Commission for Safai Karamcharis, said said that safai karmacharis working in urban local bodies in Udupi district should be provided all facilities allotted to them by the State Government.
Chairing a review meeting of local bodies at the Deputy Commissioner’s Office here on Monday, he said that not just civic workers but waste-collectors and those who engaged in road construction are safai karamcharis and their salaries should be paid on time.
The local bodies should ensure that contractors provide Provident Fund and ESI facilities and those who do not should be blacklisted and their Earnest Money Deposit confiscated, he said.
He directed officials to construct houses for safai karamcharis and provide education and education scholarships to their children and he wanted a survey of the families of safai karmacharis to be done.
He said
that legal action would be taken against officials and contractors who
make safai karamcharis clean open manholes and they would be arrested
and fined Rs. 2 lakh. Instead, the urban local bodies should use sucking
equipment to clean open manholes.
