Residential hostel contract workers plan protest on June 13
Demanding that the State government facilitate payment to contract workers at government hostels through cooperative sanghas and also urging for revision of wages and regularisation of their service, the district unit of the Karnataka Rajya Sarakari Hostel Mattu Vasati Shala Horaguttige Naukarara Sangha will stage a protest outside the Deputy Commissioner's office here on June 13.
State president of the sangha Bheemshetty Yempalli, addressing presspersons here on Monday, demanded that the system of recruiting contract workers through manpower agencies should be stopped and instead, the government should recruit workers through cooperative sanghas.
The indefinite protest in January was withdrawn after a meeting with Labour Minister Santosh Lad who then agreed to constitute cooperative sanghas for releasing payment of contract workers.
Mr. Yempalli also urged the State government to regularise the service of contract workers and revise their honorarium to ₹25,714 per month.
He said that though the Mysuru-based Sharp (Swiss) manpower agency has been blacklisted by the Revenue Department, the same agency continues to operate in Kalaburagi district for recruiting workers.
The issue has been brought to the notice of the district in-charge Minister Priyank Kharge and Deputy Commissioner Fauzia Tarannum several times, but in vain, Mr. Yempalli said.
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