Karnataka Safai Karmachari Commission Chairman Shivanna Kote expressed discontentment over the administration’s approach towards the development and welfare of manual scavengers and civic workers attached to Kalaburagi Municipal Corporation.
Addressing a media conference here on Friday, he said that he had, earlier in the day, conducted a meeting of senior district level officers and discussed the implementation of Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013 and issues related to pourakarmikas such as employment, payment of wages, distribution of safety tools and supply breakfast during their duty.
“The Commission is not satisfied with the measures that the administration has taken for the development and welfare of the pourakarmikas. It has found many inadequacies and directed the officers concerned to address them. We have also directed them to submit a action-taken report within 15 days,” Mr. Kote said.
