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| Anganwari workers yet not paid LS poll duty remuneration | | | Arun Singh
Jammu, Aug 24: The state government has different yardsticks for its different categories of employees. While the permanent employees were given money for the services rendered by them during the recently held Lok Sabha polls in the state, over 1,000 Anganwari employees are yet to get the remuneration.
Sources said that during 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Anganwari workers mostly females, had been deployed for security duty on the day of election by the local administration for Rs 450 per day but after completion of the election duty they were denied their dues.
"There are ten blocks in Jammu district and at each block more than 100 Anganwari workers had been deputed for election duty on booth level as security personnel particularly to handle the women voters," said an Anganwari worker preferring anonymity.
She further said that local administrations have played foul with us, initially they promised us to pay remuneration for election duty later they turned deaf ears towards our plight. "We had been deployed as security at each booth but we had to discharge few more jobs other than this of checking election voters list and even as peon, they treated us so badly even though we were not paid for our duties", she said.
Surprisingly no official order for the deployment of these Anganwari workers had been issued by the local administration and yet they were asked to give election duties, sources said, adding that Kathua was the only district where these workers were allegedly paid only Rs 150 out of Rs 450 and that too after taking deputation to the concerning District Development Commissioner while in other districts these Angarwari workers are still running from pillar to post to get their due payments. "At R S Pura some Angarwari workers met concerned SDM requesting him to keep them out from election duty giving plea that they were not paid for the same but SDM allegedly threatened to terminate them if they did not comply with the order," said sources.
"Since independence, successive governments have been talking of women empowerment and have launched number of schemes to make them empowered but you can see from the attitude of the government that these women have been denied their due payment and forced to do election duty virtually free of cost," said Ashok Choudhary, incharge Anganwari Workers Welfare Association affiliated to Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh.
"You will be surprised to know that many of the Anganwari workers who were engaged in election duty were well qualified like graduates, post graduates and some of them were MBA, but administration has given them a step-motherly treatment," he added. |
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