<p>Sanitation workers in the City on Tuesday staged a protest in front of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike head office on Tuesday demanding that they be spared from segregating waste.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Hundreds of contract civic workers took out a rally from the Town Hall to the Palike head office stating that waste segregation should be done at source. <br /><br />“Asking us to segregate garbage is not correct. By doing this, many of our workers will contract skin problems and other diseases,” they said.<br /><br />Secretary of Pourakarmika Mahasangha, Bengaluru unit, N Anjaneyalu said there were 18,000 contract civic workers in the City. “Though they work so hard, they are paid a meagre Rs 6,691 per month. The State government is cheating them by recruiting new workers. Instead, it should regularise those working on contract.”<br /><br />Mahasangha president P N Muthyalappa said contract civic workers were deprived of facilities such as provident fund, ESI, weekly holidays among others.<br /><br />“Though we have been demanding a minimum wage of Rs 15,000 for civic workers and other facilities for many years, no action has been taken by the government or the Palike,” he said.<br /><br />The workers submitted a memorandum to Mayor B N Manjunath Reddy who, they said, had promised to look into their demands after a meeting with the Mahasangha and sanitation workers on January 4.<br /></p>
<p>Sanitation workers in the City on Tuesday staged a protest in front of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike head office on Tuesday demanding that they be spared from segregating waste.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Hundreds of contract civic workers took out a rally from the Town Hall to the Palike head office stating that waste segregation should be done at source. <br /><br />“Asking us to segregate garbage is not correct. By doing this, many of our workers will contract skin problems and other diseases,” they said.<br /><br />Secretary of Pourakarmika Mahasangha, Bengaluru unit, N Anjaneyalu said there were 18,000 contract civic workers in the City. “Though they work so hard, they are paid a meagre Rs 6,691 per month. The State government is cheating them by recruiting new workers. Instead, it should regularise those working on contract.”<br /><br />Mahasangha president P N Muthyalappa said contract civic workers were deprived of facilities such as provident fund, ESI, weekly holidays among others.<br /><br />“Though we have been demanding a minimum wage of Rs 15,000 for civic workers and other facilities for many years, no action has been taken by the government or the Palike,” he said.<br /><br />The workers submitted a memorandum to Mayor B N Manjunath Reddy who, they said, had promised to look into their demands after a meeting with the Mahasangha and sanitation workers on January 4.<br /></p>