Tag: Pourakarmikas

‘Use machines while cleaning manhole’
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‘Use machines while cleaning manhole’

February 24, 2018

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…

Post PM Modi’s visit to city: Pourakarmikas, BJP activists, contract workers on a cleaning-spree
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Post PM Modi’s visit to city: Pourakarmikas, BJP activists, contract workers on a cleaning-spree

February 20, 2018

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…

Pourakarmikas appeal PM to provide them facilities
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Pourakarmikas appeal PM to provide them facilities

February 19, 2018

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…

Pourakarmikas felicitated
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Pourakarmikas felicitated

February 2, 2018

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,…

Swachh Survekshan 2018: Central Team to visit city next week
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Swachh Survekshan 2018: Central Team to visit city next week

January 5, 2018

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…

Over 6,000 Pourakarmikas to be regularised by January: Minister
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Over 6,000 Pourakarmikas to be regularised by January: Minister

November 23, 2017

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…

Salaries of contract Pourakarmikas to be credited to their accounts
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Salaries of contract Pourakarmikas to be credited to their accounts

November 18, 2017

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…

Failure to provide safety gears to Pourakarmikas: Commission to file cases against MCC, Zoo and Palace Board
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Failure to provide safety gears to Pourakarmikas: Commission to file cases against MCC, Zoo and Palace Board

October 29, 2017

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…

State Safai Karmachari Commission Chairman holds review meeting
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State Safai Karmachari Commission Chairman holds review meeting

October 29, 2017

Mysuru: Karnataka State Safai Karmachari Commission Chairman M.R. Venkatesh chaired a review meeting on Pourakarmikas of the District at the Deputy Commissioner’s office here yesterday. The auditorium was jam-packed with Pourakarmikas and officials. Participating in the meeting, Dalit Sangharsha Samithi (DSS) leaders alleged that manual scavenging was still prevalent at a few places though the…

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