Nalini said that it may be because the service providers are not ensuring collection, or if the cost, Rs 24-25 kg, is becoming too expensive. “The practice of open disposal by clinics has reduced significantly over the years but needs to be perfected,” she said. If one comes across a clinic not disposing of their medical waste according to the procedure, they can inform the KSPCB to look into the matter.
Your daily commute will likely be disrupted on Monday as Bengaluru auto-rickshaw drivers are going on strike. Garbage collection and transportation may also be slightly affected as the BBMP Pourakarmika Sangha has called a protest. A majority of the city’s 2.1 lakh auto-rickshaws will stay off the roads as a federation of 21 drivers’ unions has called a day-long strike to
Despite having worked for the public company for between 10 and 30 years, employees, guised as “contract workers”, have been subject to precarious labour terms.
Nirmala M, president of BBMP Pourakarmika Sangha, said, “Even physically fit workers have been asked not to report to work. This is unfair as these workers are the breadwinners of their families. Some of them are also struggling to get retirement benefits and pension, despite working for the BBMP for decades,” she said.
‘We are just dumped in hospital when we get ill’
ByY Maheswara ReddyY Maheswara Reddy / Updated: May 7, 2021, 06:00 IST
Pourakarmikas demand assurance of safety from
BBMP’s apathy after
Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Thursday for failing to provide
vaccination to them after a fellow worker died of covid-19. They also mourned the untimely death of their colleague.
Susheelamma, a pourakarmika working in
Banaswadi ward, died of coronavirus on Wednesday after undergoing treatment for three days at a hospital. The agitating pourakarmikas alleged that BBMP has not taken measures to safeguard them from coronavirus.
“The pourakarmikas affected with coronavirus are being dumped at hospitals without anyone bothering to check about the quality of medical facilities available at those hospitals. We demand justice for late