Conservancy workers in Coimbatore stage protest

The workers said they had not been paid their salary for March, by the contractor who had engaged them

A section of conservancy workers and other persons engaged on a contract basis for the Coimbatore Corporation staged a protest in front of the Corporation ward office in Vadavalli on Tuesday, to highlight to the authorities the fact that the contractor who had engaged them had not paid them their March 2021 wages. E.R. Selvam of the Tamil Nadu Annal Ambedkar Sugadhara Thuppuravu Paniyalar Sangam said the workers who protested there were highlighting the plight of more than 200 conservancy workers, domestic breeding checkers engaged in anti-mosquito operations, drivers and cleaners in wards in Vadavalli and Veerakeralam.