Mysuru: The much-hyped ‘Upahara Bhagya’ (Breakfast scheme) mooted by Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) a year ago to provide morning breakfast to 2,300 Pourakarmikas engaged in cleaning work is yet to take off owing to policy issues. The MCC had announced that it would start serving breakfast to Pourakarmikas from Feb. 2017. With cleanliness taking the…
Natl. Safai Karmachari Commission Chief tells Pourakarmikas Mysuru: National Commission for Safai Karmacharis Chairman Manhar Valjibhai Zala has asked the Pourakarmikas to compulsorily use machines and other equipment while cleaning manholes. Zala held separate meetings with Pourakarmika leaders and officials from various Departments at the MCC Hall here on Thursday. Speaking at the meeting with…
Mysuru: The sprawling Maharaja’s College Grounds where PM Modi addressed a mammoth gathering yesterday, wore a deserted look today with Pourakarmikas, BJP activists and contract workers who had constructed the stage and installed barricades along the route of PM’s convoy were busy cleaning the premises and removing the stage and barricades. The Maharaja’s College Ground…
Mysuru: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mysuru today to take part in various programmes, the Mysuru Nagara Palike Pourakarmika Sangha has appealed the PM to provide basic amenities to Pourakarmikas, who are working overtime to ensure the success of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ launched by the NDA Government led by him. In a memorandum, the…
Mysuru: Marking its second anniversary, city-based Belaku Samsthe felicitated five pourakarmikas of the MCC at a programme organised at Agrahara Circle here on Jan. 31. Senior Pourakarmikas Penachalamma, Lakshmi, Kannamma, Ganesh and Manju who were assigned duty at the Palace, K.R. Circle and MCC premises were the ones who were felicitated. Speaking on the occasion,…
Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is ready for Swachh Survekshan Survey-2018, a litmus test to be conducted by the Ministry of Urban Development, to identify the cleanest city in India. The team from Quality Council of India (QCI) that will assess the city in cleanliness parameters will arrive in city next week and this…
Mysuru: Pourakarmikas of the city, who are the backbone of keeping the city clean, are working extra hours to see that Mysuru regains the first place in the country in cleanliness. Calling upon the people to join hands with them in this drive, Mysuru Nagara Palike Pourakarmikas Permanent and Contract Association President N. Mara said…
Belagavi: Municipal Administration Minister Eshwar Khandre has said that the services of one 6,000 Pourakarmikas serving in Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) will be regularised by the end of January, 2018. Replying to a question by H.S. Shivashankar of the JD(S) in the Legislative Assembly here on Tuesday, Khandre said that the primary notification for regularisation…
Mysuru: Here is some good news for hundreds of contract Pourakarmikas working round-the-clock to keep our city clean. Following complaints that their contractors were not paying them their salaries properly, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has decided to credit their salaries directly to their bank accounts. A decision in this regard was taken at the…
Mysuru: Karnataka State Safai Karmachari Commission has decided to file cases against the heads of Palace Board, Zoo and Mysore City Corporation (MCC) for failing to provide safety gears like boots and hand gloves to Pourakarmikas. Disclosing this at a press meet at DC’s office here yesterday, Commission Chairman M.R. Venkatesh said that both regular…
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