Karnataka - Gulbarga   

Domestic workers demand monthly pension of Rs. 500

Special Correspondent

Procession taken out from Jagat Circle to Deputy Commissioner's office

PROTEST: Destitute women and domestic workers taking out a procession in Gulbarga city on Thursday.

GULBARGA: Hundreds of destitute women and domestic workers on Thursday took to the streets in Gulbarga city and protested in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office demanding among other things payment of monthly pension of Rs. 500 to all destitute women and widows and introduction of a bill to protect the rights of the unorganised workers in the State.

The women from different sections of the society took out a procession from Jagat Circle to the Deputy Commissioner's office shouting slogans against the Government for neglecting their interests.

The Uttara Karnataka Shaher Haagu Grameena Nirgathika Vidavayara Abviruddi Horata Samiti and Akhila Karnataka Mane Pantra Batte Tholiyuva Kooli Karmikara Maha Sangha took the initiative of organising the protest.

In separate memorandums addressed to Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and submitted to the district administration, these two organisations demanded that the Government sanction Rs. 500 as monthly pension to destitute women and widows as was being done in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Goa.

Unorganised sector

In the memorandum submitted by the Vidavayara Abviruddi Horata Samiti, its president Radhabhai Wadekar demanded that the Government introduce the bill pertaining to the protection of rights of the unorganised workers in the State and take measures to introduce a special life insurance scheme for women working in the unorganised sector. She said the Union and State Governments should provide reservation for women in all government schemes and distribute houses to them.

In another memorandum submitted by the Kooli Karmikara Maha Sangha, the women demanded that the Government extend the Yeshashwini Medical Insurance Scheme to domestic workers, extend free education to their children, work out a special scheme for the payment of monthly pension to the women involved in the domestic work after they attain the age of 50 and direct the respective deputy commissioners in all districts to hold one mass contact meeting every month in the slums and solve the problems of slum dwellers.

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