Bengaluru: Dubbing the state governments plan to send 1,000 pourakarmikas to Singapore as a sheer waste of money, the Karnataka State Pourakarmikas’ Association has demanded the government to focus on regularising contract workers.
It is gathered that the association is planning to write to the government asking it to withdraw the plan and use the same funds to provide better facilities to pourakarmikas.
Disgruntled over the fact that the wage revision as announced by the chief minister months ago has so far not been implemented in any single BBMP ward the association has questioned the need to send the pourakarmikas on a foreign trip when they do not understand English.
They also raised the issue of lack of basic facilities like masks, brooms and rest rooms.
The government plans to send 1,000 pourakarmikas from all corporations in the state. The BBMP plans to send one pourakarmika from each of the 198 wards to make them learn civic responsibilities.