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Anganwadi workers stage protest 9/1/2014 10:04:03 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 1: Jammu and Kashmir Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Association (AWHA) on Monday took to streets and staged a protest in support of their demands here in summer capital. The agitating workers assembled in Press Enclave Lal Chowk here and were demanding regularization of their jobs, salary inflation, formulation of a pension scheme, immediate enhancement of their remuneration and withdrawal of the plan to privatize ICDS etc. The protestors carrying banners and placards shouted slogans and demanded regularization of their services as Class III and Class IV employees and the fixation of their salary, accordingly. The president (AWHA) Tasleema Subhaan, while expressing concern over the plight of the working classes, said: "Our class has been mostly overlooked by the government. We have no other option than to protest for our demands." The police swung into action after the protest swelled. As a preventive measure police detained the vice president Khawaja Naseem, general secretary Rafiqa Khanum, and the president Tasleema Subhaan. All of workers were released later on, the police said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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