Mangalore, February 26: The daily wage earners working for Mangalore City Corporation on Saturday staged a novel protest by resorting to begging in front of the MCC building here seeking fulfilment of their various demands including the regularisation of their services.
Around hundred paurakarmikas, both men and women, sat in front of the main entrance of the building holding empty plates between 12:30pm and 2:00pm.
The protesters were led by Dakshina Kannada District Paurakarmikas and Fourth Grade Employees' Association.
Earlier, speaking to media persons, Association President Gangadhar said that the daily wage workers, who have been waiting for the regularisation of their service for the last couple of decades, have reached a pitiable condition and their pleas have been completely neglected by the government and MCC.
He said that successive governments have failed to solve the decade-old problem of daily wage workers, who have been deprived of their basic human rights.
Currently there are 225 regularised paurakarmikas working under MCC excluding 64 members whose regularisation proposal was not approved by the state government.
Apart from them there were 139 daily wage workers who had served for around 15 years with a desire to be regularised but in vain. 15 among them have already died during the course of their service.
The daily wage workers are spending their life for cleaning the city without any protective gear, hand glows and shoes, Gangadhar said.
“The government stopped providing hand glows and protective shoes to them over five years ago. Now they are working bare-handed” he said.
The protesters later submitted a memorandum to MCC Commissioner KN Vijayaprakash.
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