Bengaluru: Workers of BBMP’s 12 electric crematoria and scores of graveyards across the city have warned the civic body of a shutdown if their pending wages are not paid and if all of them are not regularised.
The workers barged into the BBMP headquarters Tuesday and shouted slogans in front of chief commissioner Tushar Giri Nath’s office.
The workers claimed they have no job security and are leading a miserable life as they are not paid salaries on time.The protesters complained that BBMP’s 350-plus crematoria workers have pending wages to be paid. In 2018, the Palike passed an order to regularize 148 crematoria and graveyard workers in the first round and the remaining in the second round.
Tushar Giri Nath told TOI, “Our focus is on regularising 148 of them since we believe 67 have already been regularised. We will release the draft list of regularised workers before December 30, invite objections and address them. If government brings in any new order to regularise other graveyard workers, we will look into it.”
BBMP officials did not respond to queries about pending salaries of the workers. Srinivas N, general secretary, Dr BR Ambedkar Dalit Sangarsha Samithi, which led the protest, said: “If things don’t go as promised, crematoria and burial grounds will be shut.”
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The workers barged into the BBMP headquarters Tuesday and shouted slogans in front of chief commissioner Tushar Giri Nath’s office.
The workers claimed they have no job security and are leading a miserable life as they are not paid salaries on time.The protesters complained that BBMP’s 350-plus crematoria workers have pending wages to be paid. In 2018, the Palike passed an order to regularize 148 crematoria and graveyard workers in the first round and the remaining in the second round.
Tushar Giri Nath told TOI, “Our focus is on regularising 148 of them since we believe 67 have already been regularised. We will release the draft list of regularised workers before December 30, invite objections and address them. If government brings in any new order to regularise other graveyard workers, we will look into it.”
BBMP officials did not respond to queries about pending salaries of the workers. Srinivas N, general secretary, Dr BR Ambedkar Dalit Sangarsha Samithi, which led the protest, said: “If things don’t go as promised, crematoria and burial grounds will be shut.”
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