Raichur: A woman civic activist protests by standing in a storm water drain (SWD) at Bhagigunta on Tuesday. Raichur District after being denied a meeting with a minister to put forward their demands.
Sanitation worker Geeta Singh surprised everyone by getting down in the drain and pouring dirty water on herself before raising slogans.
She wanted to meet Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil, who is also in-charge of Raichur district, and demanded a separate burial ground and national identity cards for sanitation workers. Geeta had alleged that the minister’s security staff did not allow her to meet him or submit her petition to the minister. Angered by this, she jumped into the nearby SWD and protested.
“Though others tried to stop her from going to the SWD, she went into the gutter. She vented her anger on the corporation officials,” officials said. Pictures of Geeta’s protest have gone viral on social media.
Afterwards, he was encouraged by the Marke Yard police to come out of the aqueduct. On June 19, Geeta had come to meet the district minister regarding her demands, but allegedly the officers and police present there did not allow her to meet him. The police made him sit in the car and dropped him near his house.
The National Commission for Safai Karamcharis had invited online applications for identity cards for manual scavengers for a tenure of one year in 2020-21, for which 80 civilian laborers had applied. Raichur City Municipal Council Commissioner Gurulingappa GK Geetha said, “Out of 80 applications, only six got the ID card, who applied for the ID after the last date but failed to get it.” “So she got agitated and protested,” he claimed.
Sanitation worker Geeta Singh surprised everyone by getting down in the drain and pouring dirty water on herself before raising slogans.
She wanted to meet Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil, who is also in-charge of Raichur district, and demanded a separate burial ground and national identity cards for sanitation workers. Geeta had alleged that the minister’s security staff did not allow her to meet him or submit her petition to the minister. Angered by this, she jumped into the nearby SWD and protested.
“Though others tried to stop her from going to the SWD, she went into the gutter. She vented her anger on the corporation officials,” officials said. Pictures of Geeta’s protest have gone viral on social media.
Afterwards, he was encouraged by the Marke Yard police to come out of the aqueduct. On June 19, Geeta had come to meet the district minister regarding her demands, but allegedly the officers and police present there did not allow her to meet him. The police made him sit in the car and dropped him near his house.
The National Commission for Safai Karamcharis had invited online applications for identity cards for manual scavengers for a tenure of one year in 2020-21, for which 80 civilian laborers had applied. Raichur City Municipal Council Commissioner Gurulingappa GK Geetha said, “Out of 80 applications, only six got the ID card, who applied for the ID after the last date but failed to get it.” “So she got agitated and protested,” he claimed.