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Civic workers take out 'semi-nude' rally demanding regularisation

July 20, 2011

Mangalore, July 20: Civic workers of Mangalore City Corporation on Wednesday staged a semi-nude protest demonstration in the city seeking fulfillment of their various demands including regularisation of their services.

Over a hundred Pourakarmikas, both men and women, under the banner of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Pourakarmikara Hagu Nalkane Darje Naukarara Sangha, took out a rally from Jyothi Circle and marched towards MCC via KS Rao Road, after a stopover in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner.

The protesters raised slogans against the MCC and State Government for their 'continued negligence' towards civic workers, who have been waiting for the regularisation of their service for more than a decade.

Speaking on the occasion, Honorary President of Sangha, Shivappa said that they have been compelled to stage a semi-nude protest to send a message to the administration, which has completely failed to address the woes of paurakarmikas.

He said that the Sangha, that has been in the forefront of organising various kinds of protests to have their demands met, has been appealing the government for the past one decade to address the woes of the daily wage workers, who do not have any other source of income.

"However, our repeated appeals fall on deaf ears of politicians and authorities and our prolonged struggle proved to be futile,” he lamented.

He reminded that paurakarmikas have been endangering their lives for cleaning the city without any protective gear, hand glows and shoes.

Currently, around 126 pourakarmikas are working on a daily wage basis with the civic body for the past decade or more.

The main demands of the protesters include regularisation of those who civic workers, who have been serving for 10 to 15 years, free health cards for all civic workers under MCC and free education for the children of civic workers etc.

The protesters submitted memorandum containing their demands, to Deputy Commissioner, MCC Commissioner and Assistant Labour Commissioner.

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July 9,2020

Bengaluru,  Jul 9: Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said that he was opposed to a tie-up with Janata Dal-Secular in the last Lok Sabha elections but the party high command did not listen to him.

"I had suggested that we should fight alone (in Lok Sabha elections) because JD-S votes would not have come to us and our votes would not have gone to JD-S," Siddaramaiah told reporters here.

Congress leader said that he was the only one to make the suggestion and he did not get support.

"I was the only one to raise a voice that's why it was not heard by (party) high command and I did not get support. We might have won over seven seats in parliament election if we had fought alone," he said.

After forming government in Karnataka in 2018 with support of JD-S, Congress had fought the 2019 general election in a pre-poll alliance with the party. Congress could only one seat of the 21 it contested and JD-S also won one seat of the seven it contested.

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August 4,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 4: The Central Crime Branch-Bengaluru conducted raids at 35 locations in Hennur and Banaswadi areas on Tuesday morning and arrested seven foreign nationals without valid passports and visas.

The Crime Branch also recovered fake currency during the raid, which is currently underway, informed the police.

"Central Crime Branch-Bengaluru conducted raids at 35 locations in Hennur and Banaswadi area today morning and arrested seven foreign nationals without valid passports and visa, fake currency also recovered," Sandeep Patil, Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime, Bengaluru said.

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June 27,2020

Mangaluru, June 27: The district health authorities are likely to conduct mass random testing for Covid-19 in Ullal town on the outskirts of the city in the wake of detection of several new coronavirus positive cases there in past couple few days.  

An elderly woman from Azad Nagar in Ullal was died of coronavirus earlier this week. Many others including a couple of policemen also tested positive for the deadly virus in vicinity.

Following this, local elected representatives including MLA U T Khader and religious leaders of Ullal held a meeting regarding taking steps to control the spread of the virus. In the meeting Mr Khader suggested the authorities to conduct random testing in Ullal town. 

Apart from Azad Nagar, covid-19 cases have surfaced in Kodi, Bangera Lane and in the surroundings of police station and Sahara Hospital triggering panic among people. Hence, the authorities are like to conduct random testing of auto rickshaw drivers, fishermen, street vendors among others. 

Meanwhile, several mosques in Ullal have reportedly decided to suspend congregational prayers temporarily.

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