BENGALURU: Because of the taboo related to the pandemic and also the anxiety of being ostracised in their villages to get almost any institution with the contaminated, many men are operating undercover at different crematoria from town. Siddappa in Doddaballapura, that lost his job in a brick kiln mill after the lockdown, was urgently searching for one after a local contractor advised him on a well-paying project in Bengaluru. Without even asking exactly what the job was, he jumped on to some Tavarekere jumped tractor April 30. “After arriving here I realised it’s a mass crematorium for both Covid sufferers. But, I am contented with the cover but my loved ones back home does not know the essence of my job,” stated the 52-year-old. Siddappa is one of the 32 employees in Tavarekere bulk crematorium who shy away from the media spotlight because they don’t need anybody back home to learn in their job. “I am concerned about my loved ones, like my old mum, who fears ostracism within our community over the virus. The cash from the job this is feeding my loved ones and I have been supplied with meals and lodging also,” explained Rajashekar, a Nelamangala resident. As with other employees in the crematorium, Rajashekar has advised the family they’re heading into Bengaluru for building work. ‘Toughest function’ Taluk officials of various zones have organized lodging and food for employees in the town’s four bulk crematoria at college or school hostels. These employees are made on contract basis. “They’ve lost their livelihood article the outbreak of this outbreak. They’ve been introduced here by a builder. We’re paying them around Rs 2,000 per human body and providing food and lodging since they can not go back to their villages because of the character of labour,” a sales department official in Giddenahalli mass crematorium stated. Their job entails putting the bodies on burning off beds, organizing timber and handling the burning pyre. They’re also involved in heating the burning beds using water prior to clearing it to another semester. “Both emotionally and emotionally, it is the toughest job I have ever achieved. Watching grieving households in quarters leaves us with sleepless nights,” Jagadhish, a funeral employee at Giddenahalli, stated. Some titles have been changed on request
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