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Civic workers beg for alms in protest

— Photo: Uppu Damodar

Novel protest: Sanitation workers collect alms from people in Karimnagar town on Tuesday.

KARIMNAGAR: The sanitary workers of Karimnagar Municipal Corporation have come on to the roads and collected alms from the people to eke out their living on Tuesday in protest against the non-payment of their wages by the corporation since last five months.

Several hundreds of sanitation workers have participated in a rally from the Corporation office to the Indira Chowk in the town and collected alms from the passersby. They appealed the locals to provide some assistance through their donations so that they could eke out their livelihood.

It may be recalled that Karimnagar Mayor D. Shankar had assured to take measures for the payment of wages to the sanitation workers on August 11 during the municipal corporation general body on August 7. Contrary to the claims made by the Mayor, the municipal authorities have failed to provide the salaries to the sanitation workers.

The Karimnagar municipal corporation sanitation workers association district president B Ailaiah said that they had requested the corporation for the payment of their wages since last five months, but in vain. He said that the sanitation workers were facing starvation and forced to make huge debts because of non-payment of wages.

He demanded the corporation authorities to provide wages to all the sanitation workers through bank payment, ESI facilities and other welfare schemes.

He threatened to intensify their agitation programme by launching indefinite relay hunger strike in Karimnagar town from Independence day onwards.

He said that the sanitation workers would protest against the municipal authorities’ attitude by wearing black badges on Wednesday and Thursday.

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