Bengaluru: Conservancy workers on Wednesday staged a protest against harassment and unjust treatment meted out to them by garbage contractors. They staged the protest in front of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Head Office.
Their demands included immediate payment of pending wages and legal action against the contractor who sexually harassed women conservancy workers in K.R. Puram.
The protest, organised by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Guttige Pourakarmikara Sangha, drew women conservancy workers from across Bengaluru to fight for their rights.
Mayor Sampath Raj, who addressed the agitating women conservancy workers, promised to blacklist garbage contractor Nagesh for allegedly harassing conservancy workers.
However, K.R. Puram police, who registered an FIR in the case almost a week after conservancy workers complained to them, are yet to arrest the contractor. A senior police officer said that seven of his associates have been arrested.
