Sir,

Apropos the news item titled ‘Pourakarmika strike raises stink in city’ (Star of Mysore dated July 4). Weather beaten, on duty from wee hours of the day, Pourakarmikas toil for us, keeping our villages, towns and cities clean, risking their own health and lives. Yet successive Governments have remained indifferent to address their problems and issues.

The mess and the stink all over from a few days of absence of work from them sends a powerful message not to take them for granted.

For their back-breaking and thankless job, with rarely a word of encouragement from citizens, Pourakarmikas are working hard to keep our environment clean and look aesthetic.

The Government should not dither and on priority must find resources to make the jobs of these hapless, much exploited contract Pourakarmikas and other sanitation workers permanent and give them other benefits too. This can, perhaps, be easily done if the Government stops spending on wasteful and unwanted projects.

– Mubasher Mirza, Bannimantap ‘B’ Layout, 5.7.2022

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