Pune: The absence of an effective mechanism to regulate assistance services and domestic institutions that provide support staff, in addition to the tendency to be rented without seeking their police verification, is a big obstacle in examining some of them.
“In a city like Pune where, regardless of local job seekers, a large number of migrants from inside and outside Maharashtra arrived every day to find livelihoods, it was difficult to find out whether someone approached the work of domestic workers was from the background of the sound,” said A resident of Karvenagar Society.
Some regulatory mechanisms such as registration and verification with police and entrepreneurs who request a verification certificate can help in resolving this problem with most, he added.
To this day, both Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad police have such registration and verification systems.
So much, there is no information about the number of institutions involved in providing the help of servants / domestic to households who hire them.
“We are working on an action plan to monitor the activities of the institution that provides domestic assistance,” said Police Commissioner Pune Amitabh Gupta.
The problem is very important from a safety perspective, especially senior citizens living alone, added Gupta.
“We will immediately make a functional plan at the police station level as soon as we get all the inputs and feedback from our officers.” Service providers said the servants or domestic assistance were arrested in crime at their employer where they were not connected to any agency.
“Such independent people prefer to work at every hour or for a limited period.
Initially, they worked well and then broke down.
People rented also in a hurry and this could be proven expensive because someone did not know who had been He rents the government must frame some rules and regulations in which all of these activities are controlled.
Often, it has been seen that the servant behaves badly with clients or involved in small crimes or stops going to their workplace without notice to their employers.
“Other owners of the agent Indicates that quite often people are interested in knowing how much they will charge for monthly remuneration and don’t even ask for any verification.
“If they get servants at a lower cost, they will rent.
Like that an approach needs to change because people cannot ignore their own safety considering the servants get full access to their homes,” he said.