AWHU highlights demands, threatens agitation

Excelsior Rakesh

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 28: Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union (AWHU) today served a 15-day ultimatum to the Government for redressal of the grievances of workers and 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,” AWHU president, Suman Suri, said while addressing a press conference here today.
“If our genuine demands were not met within 15 days, we will once again come out on the roads,” she said, adding till date we are waiting for favourable consideration of our demands and the payment of honorarium for the period of strike, which has not been paid to us, despite release of funds for this purpose.
Besides hike in honorarium, she 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.
She called upon all the rank and the file of the Union and Anganwadi Workers and Helpers of Jammu Division to stay united and prepared for this struggle.
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.

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