Hubballi: During the Covid-19 crisis, the house keeper was deployed to ensure the success of locking and made people follow Covid guidelines to curb the spread of the virus.
They are also considered a Covid soldier.
However, they have not been paid for the past four months.
Because there was a lack of labor at the police station in the entire city, the government had ranged home keepers to manage the situation during locking in Hubballi and Dharwad.
Home bodyguards function as auxiliary force for the police in maintenance of internal security, helping the community in any emergency such as air strikes, fire, cyclones, earthquakes, epidemics and maintenance of law and order during the festival.
There are more than 700 house guards and they are paid Rs 380 per day.
During the second wave of Covid-19, the district government mobilized 324 house guards in the Dharwad district.
Their salary is still not cleaned by the government.
With anonymous terms, a house guard officer told TII that wages must be provided under disaster management funds.
The government must release RS 62 lakh to the district for payment of housing support.
Many home keepers say, “We serve the community with the police department in many emergency situations, but we do not have security services.
We get a wage of Rs 380 per job.
We find it difficult to manage our family with low wages.” The house keeper from other districts – Haveri, Gadag and Koppal – has been given a salary to work during Covid-19 but those in the Dharwad district have not been paid, he added.
Deputy Commissioner Nitesh Patil said, “I have written to the state government who is looking for a release of a home bodyguard salary waiting during the pandemic.
Responding to the letter, the government has released funds.
All housekeepers, who work during a pandemic, will be paid for their salaries in a few days In the future, “he said.