| Anganwadi workers stage protest, demand release of salary | | |  Early Times Report
Mendhar, May 21: Anganwadi Workers and Helpers from various Tehasil staged protest here on Monday demanding release of nine months' salaries and enhancement in their honorarium.
Scores of Anganwadi workers and helpers, under the banner of J&K Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Association Poonch Mendhar and assembled at Main Chowk Mendhar and amid anti-government slogans demanding enhancement in their honorarium, they also alleged that they have not received any salary from last nine months.
"It has been Nine months and we have not received even a penny from the government, there are many widowed female workers who are the only support of their families but still government is paying no heed to our demands", Naseem Johan president of the association said.
The protesting Anganwadi workers and helpers said that they are receiving very low honorarium as compared to the other states. "Our state government gives us around six hundred from state share apart from the three thousand rupees that we get from centre while as Anganwadi workers and helpers get four to five thousand rupees share in other states from the state government apart from central funding", said one of the Anganwadi workers.
The Anganwadi workers and helpers have protested many times since February 1st to press for their demands. They threatened to lock down all the Anganwadi centres if government failed to fulfill their demands. |
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