The Hindu 06.01.2015
Local bodies urged to provide facilities to safai karamcharis
Chairperson of the Karnataka State Commissionfor Safai Karamcharis Narayan duringa review meeting in Udupi on Monday.
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.