Around 2.07 lakh anganwadi workers and helpers across the state have decided to go on a strike from April 1 to demand for an increase in the salaries.
Anganwadi workers and helpers are hired by the government to run the central government’s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) welfare programme that provides nutrition, pre-school education to children below six years of age.
They complained that their monthly salaries of Rs5000 for an anganwadi worker and Rs2,500 for the helper, hardly gets them through the month.
“In spite of working for more than seven hours a day, many anganwadi workers are taking up additional jobs to survive. Some have started working as domestic helpers,” said Shubha Shamim, secretary of Anganwadi Karmchari Sangathana.
“Also, there is a major delay of at least three to four months in the payment of the present salaries,” she added.View more:-Bulk Sms Service provider
Meena Mohite, 45, an anganwadi worker at Pratiksha Nagar, Sion, has been selling coconuts in the evening to earn some extra money. In the last 25 years of working as an anganwadi worker, her pay has increased from Rs 250 to only Rs 5000.
Source:-Hindustantimes
Anganwadi workers and helpers are hired by the government to run the central government’s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) welfare programme that provides nutrition, pre-school education to children below six years of age.
They complained that their monthly salaries of Rs5000 for an anganwadi worker and Rs2,500 for the helper, hardly gets them through the month.
“In spite of working for more than seven hours a day, many anganwadi workers are taking up additional jobs to survive. Some have started working as domestic helpers,” said Shubha Shamim, secretary of Anganwadi Karmchari Sangathana.
“Also, there is a major delay of at least three to four months in the payment of the present salaries,” she added.View more:-Bulk Sms Service provider
Meena Mohite, 45, an anganwadi worker at Pratiksha Nagar, Sion, has been selling coconuts in the evening to earn some extra money. In the last 25 years of working as an anganwadi worker, her pay has increased from Rs 250 to only Rs 5000.
Source:-Hindustantimes
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