Bengaluru: Contractors accused of cheating Metro workers

BENGALURU: Metro employees, especially those engaged in housekeeping, security and ticket office machine (TOM) work, are receiving lower salaries than they are entitled to because of alleged irregularities by private contractors.
TOI accessed a copy of an email sent by a whistleblower and former senior Metro employee to the BMRCL management.
Housekeeping supervisors should have a gross pay of Rs 16,835 and net pay of Rs 13,036, while security staff should get Rs 16,293 and Rs 12,610, respectively.
The TOM staff should get Rs 18,318 as gross and Rs 14,381 as net pay. The net pay is after statutory deductions such as employees’ provident fund, professional tax and employee state insurance.