JAC demands ₹50 lakh ex-gratia, jobs for kin of deceased HMWSSB outsourcing employees

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The Telangana Outsourcing Employees JAC on Sunday demanded ₹50 lakh ex-gratia for the families of each of the three outsourcing employees who died within 24 hours, along with a government job for one member of each family.

The committee demanded immediate reduction of work pressure, job security, and a comprehensive inquiry into the working conditions and salaries paid to outsourcing employees in Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB).

The JAC leaders were removed by the police on Sunday while on their way to call on the bereaved families. They pointed to three deaths in the Board - Srihari of Moula Ali, Vinay of Peddapur and Kiran Kumar of Qutbullapur, and two of the three persons were meter readers.

According to the leaders, delays in salaries were increasing financial and mental stress among workers who are already facing uncertainty over jobs, staff shortages and increasing workloads. The Board should immediately take up registration of outsourcing employees’ details on the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMS portal), they demanded. They also opposed new commission-based tender policies for meter readers and alleged that such a move could result in job losses for existing experienced workers.

Present among the leaders were Prithviraj, Puli Lakshmaiah, Balakrishna Reddy, Suresh Goud, and others.

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