Services of contract municipal workers to be regularised soon : Karmachari Commission Chief

Services of contract municipal workers to be regularised soon : Karmachari Commission Chief

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, Jan 03, 2015: Karnataka State Safai Karmacharis Commission President Narayana has informed that the officials of local administrative bodies have been instructed to take suitable remedial measures within 15 days  to ensure that the municipal workers working under contract basis in local bodies in the district are not cheated by the contactors  with regard to the ESI and PF facilities. He said it has come to his notice that the contract workers were being cheated.

Speaking to reporters after holding a meeting with officials of various   departments at the DC office in the city on January 2, Friday. He said it has come to the Commission’s notice that  just 12 municipal workers were handling the works of 35 municipal workers in Mulki, Bantwal, Puttur, Sullia, Belthangady and Moodbidri. The workers were even reportedly cheated as far as ESI, PF facilities are concerned, he said  and added the local administrative officials have been asked to look into the  matter within 15 days failing which legal action would follow against the officials  as well as the contractors.

 He also informed that as per the court orders the process of regularising the services of as many as 35000 municipal workers working on contact basis  across the state including Mangaluru City Corporation  would commence within the next six months.

He also stated that the police have been asked to register suo moto complaints  if they have any suspicion that labourers are made to manually clean manholes and  sceptic tanks.

A.B. Ibrahim, Deputy Commissioner, Hephsiba Rani Korlapati, MCC Commissioner, Tulasi Maddineni, ZP CEO, Gokuldas Nayak, MCC Joint Commissioner and others were present on the occasion.