Anganwadi workers, helpers stage protest in Anantnag : Allege that they are without wages for around eight months
Anantnag: The anganwadi workers and helpers staged a protest in Sports stadium Anantnag and alleged that the authorities have failed to provide them wages for around eight months.
The protesting workers and helpers said that since last eight months they are without any honorarium due to which they have faced innumerable hardships.
The protesting workers said that since last 8 months the central share and state share since last three months wages is due to them but no one is taking their plight seriously.
“Anganwadi workers and helpers are being treated with utter contempt by the government,” said an Anganwadi worker.
“Despite all government schemes are being implemented through Anganwadi workers and helpers but they are even being denied the meager wages,” they added.
Besides that we are being denied social security, benefits including promotion, gratuity, pension, provident fund and medical facilities, the protestors said.
“We have been protesting in Srinagar, at district headquarters and even knocking doors of concerned authorities but no attention is being provided towards our genuine demands,” the Anganwadi workers and helpers said.
They once again requested the concerned authorities to look into their genuine demands and release the pending wages that are due to them.
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