Cremation, burial ground workers in B luru living life of abject misery: Report
Tue, May 25 2021 19:27 IST |
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Bengaluru, May 25 : Dignity Disposed , a report prepared by the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), highlights the plight of Bengaluru s cremation and burial ground workers, who are forced to work for as long as 14 hours a day due to the surge in Covid related fatalities.
The authors of this report are Swathi Seshadri, Lekha Adavi and Kripa Krishnan (a volunteer), who visited 26 crematoriums and burial grounds between May 4 and 8 to capture the plight of the workers there.
According to them prior to the pandemic, there were around five bodies to be buried or burnt in a day.