KALABURAGI: Within two days of taking charge as Kalaburagi deputy commissioner, Yashwanth V Gurukar has given a job to a widow on humanitarian grounds.
On 25 January, when Yashwanth was moving to the new office in Kalaburagi, he saw a woman sitting outside the office with her two children. He asked her what her problem was. The woman, Shilingamma, explained that her husband Malingraya had died while working as a second division clerk at the Nada kacheri office in Khajuri village in Aland taluk. The woman wanted a job on humanitarian grounds.
Yashwanth ordered an official to look into the matter and ordered them to give her a job within two days, otherwise the official could face action.
The woman was given job on 28 January and Yashwanth has given her the appointment letter.
Shilingamma has been appointed as a second division clerk at the Kalaburagi tahsildar’s officer. She was asked to join work in February.
