Vijayawada: Hundreds
of contract workers who came to work for Krishna Pushkaralu were left
without food, drinking water and other basic amenities at the Pushkara
Nagar set up by Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) at the Gandhiji
Municipal High School.
Most of the workers were from
Bapatla, Tenali and other areas of Guntur district. Pushkara Nagar is
the temporary shelter constructed for pilgrims, who will attend Krishna
Pushkaralu in Vijayawada.
A group of contract workers who
arrived from Bapatla at Pushkara Nagar on Monday night were not provided
food till Tuesday afternoon. G Durga Rao, the head of the team of
workers said the middleman who brokered the deal between VMC and the
workers had disappeared.
He said the workers had come with a
lot of hope to do the sanitation works for the Pushkaralu after being
promised Rs 250 per day. The majority of workers were from Bapatla and
some of the women had brought their children along, said Durga Rao.
The VMC had decided to engage the
services of the workers for 18 days from August 9 to August 26. While
the VMC agreed to pay the workers Rs 400 per day and provide food three
times a day, the contractor had told the workers that they would be paid
Rs 250 per day.
Only two water taps have been
arranged at Pushkara Nagar. With only two days left for the beginning of
the Pushkaralu, there were no fans in the rooms neither were the
bathing rooms ready. Workers were seen importing marble stone for
construction of temporary bathrooms.
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