Sanitary workers stage dharna demanding timely disbursal of wages
The Hindu
Demanding timely disbursal of their wages, contract sanitary workers of Tirunelveli Corporation struck work and staged a dharna for a while on Monday. The protesting workers said they had not been getting their wages on time from the private contract firm despite the contractual norms. Moreover, the contract firm had not paid their provident fund contributions amounting to more than ₹1 crore to the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation.

The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday ordered the issue of a notice to the State government on a PIL petition, which had complained about disturbances caused to people residing in the localities around the National Public School situated in Rajajinagar 5th block due to use of loudspeakers with high volume in the school and parking of school buses in residential areas.












