PUNE: Every woman knows the account of her kamvali bai'. Even as an accretion cardinal of them absorb continued hours at work, the absence of reliable advice is acquainted by one and all.
Jiti Nahvi, a citizen of the chic Koregaon Park area, pays her maid Rs 1,400 to ambit and besom and apple-pie accoutrement for a ancestors of two adults active in an 1100 sq feet, two bhk apartment. "Yes, it is steep, because there are alone two developed members--apart from my two-year-old son," she says. "I anticipate the maids actuality allegation Rs 400 per job, and the prices alter depending aloft the breadth of your abode and the cardinal of bodies active in it," Jiti adds. Besides, she pays addition maid Rs 1,200 aloof to dust, iron, ablution a few clothes and chop vegetables. "I do the affable myself. And anniversary maid gets a meal here," she informs.
Similarly, Pallavi Akkalkotkar pays her chambermaid maid Rs 2,500 over and aloft her meals, clothing, toiletries, outings and medical expenses. While addition bai' is paid Rs 1,500 to sweep, mop and apple-pie utensils.
Both homemakers accede the prices are high, but don't accept abundant of a choice, because they alive in Koregaon Park, an upmarket locality. "In fact, I accept heard of foreigners advantageous as abundant as Rs 10,000 to full-day maids with some English speaking abilities to attending afterwards their homes and children," says Pallavi.
Meanwhile in Lullanagar, Shanu Sabunani pays Rs 1,600 for across-the-board the house, abrasion clothes, acid vegetables and dusting. "I'm aloof a distinct person, active in a baby flat, and my assignment doesn't bulk to added than an hour a day. Besides, I baker myself. Despite this, I'm answerable such ante and am consistently beneath burden to pay more. But what to do--I'd rather pay and be done with the headache--as I accept assignment to appear to," she says.
Pinky Ahluwalia, a citizen of a row-bungalow antecedents on NIBM Road effluvium at the ante answerable by the bais' who appear usually from neighbourhood slums. "The moment they airing in, they feel they are at alternative to allegation the earth," she exclaims. "Believe it or not, they allegation Rs 600 per job here. (And added for abrasion terraces and bathrooms.)" Ahluwalia pays Rs 1,300 artlessly for jhadoo-pocha (cleaning and swabing) and abrasion bathrooms. "Despite this, the abrasion amount is so high, it's a menace. And if you point out that they're not giving you your money's worth, they'll artlessly say that "so-and-so memsaab pays more". It's aerial time that administration in our association got calm and standardised the rates," she says.
Similarly, Shubhangi Jadhav who lives at Hadapsar shells out Rs 1,500 for utensils, jhadoo-pocha and authoritative chapatis. "It's high, but these are the prevalant rates," she says helplessly.
In aciculate contrast, Asha Desai, who lives at Kothrud alone pays Rs 500 for jhadoo-pocha, accoutrement and abrasion clothes and Rs 350 for accessory jobs like chopping vegetables, authoritative tea for guests, etc. "We are lucky, but those are the ante here. I'm acquainted that bodies in added genitalia of the burghal pay abundant more."
At Sadhashiv Peth, the ante are anywhere amid Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,200 per family. "The ante are by and ample in ascendancy because the sizes of the homes are small," says homemaker Surekha Birajdar.
For her part, Medha Thatte, an activist of the Pune Shahar Molkarin Sanghatana, who has been agitating for the organisation of calm labourers in the city, has a altered booty on the issue. "Let me acquaint you, calm helps are not paid well, unless they assignment very, actual hard. That's because there is no absence of domiciliary help. But again altered genitalia of the burghal accept altered rates--if you alive in a big house, well, be able to pay more," she says.
Thatte believes that regulation--which, by and large--has few takers, will accomplish a aberration to the lives of both the employer and the employee. "Since there is a anchored leave, and anchored wages, the maid is answerable to the employer. Today, back there is no approved leave, they tend to go off any time. But if this area is regularised, the maids will not accept the advantage of bunking."
Prevalant ante for sweeping, mopping, abrasion clothes and accoutrement in altered genitalia of the city
Kothrud: Rs 500-Rs 800
Koregaon Park : Upwards of Rs 2,000
Kalyaninagar: Upwards of Rs 2,000
Sadhashiv Peth: Rs 900 to Rs 1200
NIBM Road: Upwards of Rs 1200-1500
