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Pourakarmikas demand increase in minimum wages
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Their other demands include housing benefits
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The pourakarmikas submitted a memorandum of their demands to senior civic officials on Wednesday.
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Their other demands include housing benefits
Scores of pourakarmikas staged a protest at the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) head office demanding equal pay for equal work, an increase in minimum wages, housing benefits and bringing drivers and cleaners/assistants of auto tippers and compactors under the direct payment system.
Though the pourakarmikas, who were labelled frontline workers by the BBMP following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, have all been brought under the direct payment system, the drivers and cleaners/assistants are excluded. Their salaries and benefits continue to be controlled by garbage contractors, said Maithreyi Krishnan of BBMP Pourakarmikara Sangha, affiliated to the All India
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