 Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 28: Anganwadi workers and helpers association president Suman Suri served a 15-day ultimatum for redressal of their grievances and said "if the administration failed, we will come on the roads once again".
The Anganwadi workers and helpers called off their six month-long agitation in July last year on the assurance of the governor administration which later enhanced their monthly honorarium by Rs 500 for workers and Rs 400 for helpers.
"The administration played a crude joke with us by raising a meagre amount, ignoring our demand for a hike in the honorarium from Rs 3,600 to Rs 10,000 for workers and Rs 1,800 to Rs 6,000 for helpers," Anganwadi workers and helpers association president Suman Suri told reporters here.
"If our genuine demands were not met within 15 days, we will once again come out on the roads," he said.
Besides hike in honorarium, he said the major demands of the workers include implementation of the pension scheme, release of pending salaries and gratuity of Rs 2 lakh for workers and Rs 1 lakh for helpers on retirement. |
