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Pourakarmikas on rotational stir
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Pourakarmikas on rotational stir

October 9, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru:  Alleging that the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Council meeting held yesterday did not take any concrete decision on direct credit of wages which they have been demanding for long, MCC Contract Pourakarmikas under the banner of MCC Permanent and Contract Pourakarmika Maha Sangha, continued their rotational stir for the second day today in front…

Outsourced workers demand pay parity
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Outsourced workers demand pay parity

September 29, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: Members of Mysuru Nagara Palike Khayam hagu Guttige Pourakarmikara Maha Sangha staged protest opposite Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) this morning demanding regularisation of outsourced and contractual workers and hike in salary on par with permanent employees. Protesters alleged that outsourced workers, including vehicle drivers and cleaners, working in MCC are getting a meagre salary…

‘Let a Pourakarmika inaugurate Dasara this time’
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‘Let a Pourakarmika inaugurate Dasara this time’

September 8, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: Members of Akhila Karnataka Arunthathiyar Mahasabha staged a protest in front of the MCC office yesterday, demanding that the State Government get the Dasara celebrations inaugurated by a Pourakarmika this time. Protestors also urged the administration to provide a separate 3 percent inner reservation for Pourakarmikas, as done in the neighbouring State Tamil Nadu….

Former Mayor demands direct credit of Pourakarmika salaries to Bank accounts
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Former Mayor demands direct credit of Pourakarmika salaries to Bank accounts

August 25, 2020

To stage demonstration tomorrow Mysore/Mysuru: Accusing the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) of bowing to the lobby of Pourakarmika outsourcing contractors, former city Mayor Narayana, who is also the President of  State Pourakarmika Association, alleged that the MCC has failed to directly credit the wages to the Bank account of the Pourakarmikas, despite a clear Government …

City Corporator distributes grocery kits, fetes Pourakarmikas on her birthday
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City Corporator distributes grocery kits, fetes Pourakarmikas on her birthday

August 13, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: About 600 people were distributed grocery kits by MCC Ward No. 22 Corporator Namratha Ramesh, who celebrated her 44th birthday this morning. Namratha, along with her husband Ramesh, a JD(S) leader and daughters Akshatha, Harshitha and Arpitha, distributed grocery kits to nearly 600 people including labourers, house maids, daily wagers and poor people of…

Inner Wheel Club donates bed sheets, blankets & kettles to Pourakarmikas’ CCC
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Inner Wheel Club donates bed sheets, blankets & kettles to Pourakarmikas’ CCC

August 9, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: The Inner Wheel Club of Mysore District 318 donated 50 bed sheets, 50 blankets and two electric kettles, worth Rs. 11,800, to the COVID Care Centre (CCC) set up by the Mysuru City Corporation’s (MCC) to treat COVID-infected Pourakarmikas. The materials were handed over to MCC Commissioner Gurudatta Hegde at Zilla Panchayat premises yesterday…

Grocery kits distributed to Auto Drivers, Pourakarmikas
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Grocery kits distributed to Auto Drivers, Pourakarmikas

July 25, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: Corporator J. Gopi distributed grocery kits to Auto Drivers, Pourakarmikas and other workers engaged in unorganised sectors, living in T.K. Layout and surrounding areas in city. Over 180 residents living in locked down areas of T.K. Layout and surrounding areas received grocery kits containing rice, wheat flour, rava, sugar, cooking oil, salt and lentils…

Irony? Civic problems galore at Pourakarmika Locality
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Irony? Civic problems galore at Pourakarmika Locality

July 24, 2020

Mysore/Mysuru: Though the heritage city of Mysuru had earned the ‘Cleanest City’ tag for two successive  years, the Kuduremaala area (Manasinagar) coming under MCC Ward 21, where more than 350 Pourakarmika families live, is ironically facing a lot of civic issues. The grouse of the Pourakarmikas living in the area is that while Pourakarmikas play…

Pourakarmikas eat rice bath for breakfast on all seven days
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Pourakarmikas eat rice bath for breakfast on all seven days

July 4, 2020

MCC’s free breakfast scheme is not free from controversies and this time it is about taste and variety Mysore/Mysuru: The much-hyped ‘Upahara Bhagya’ (breakfast scheme) mooted and implemented by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) to provide breakfast to over 2,400 Pourakarmikas engaged in cleaning work has hit a roadblock. This time it is over taste…

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