State BJP President B S Yeddyurappa on Wednesday promised pourakarmikas that if he is voted to power he will increase their wages from the present Rs 17,000 to Rs 30,000.
Addressing the gathering at a convention which was organised by Pourakarmikara Samudaaya Vedike Yedyurappa said that he has received a list of demands from the Pourakarmika forum and all those demands will be fulfilled as soon as BJP takes charge of the state government.
He also mentioned few of the demands by the forum which includes: equal pay for everybody, regularise all 20,000 workers and not just 4,000 of them, permanent houses, permitting pourakarmika to contest in elections, free medical check-ups, improved health care and bonus of Rs 25,000 for all workers on Ambedkar Jayanti every year.
PTI
