Anganwadi workers to protest govt’s ‘anti-labour’ policies

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, may 20

The members of District Anganwai Workers’ Union held a district-level meeting today, where they raised slogans against the state government and the Central government for not fulfilling their demands.

Union president Subhash Rani said workers would participate in the Lalkaar Rally to be taken out under the banner of Central of Indian Trade Union (CITU) on May 30. She said the rally would be organised to commemorate the formation of CITU. She said the organisation for formed with the objective of ending exploitation of the underprivileged and labourers who work hard to eke out a living and to struggle against injustice meted out to them. The union members aired their concern and aguish against the ‘anti-labour policies’ of the government.

She said Anganwardi Workers’ Union in Punjab was also part of CITU and the workers’ union would participate in the Lalkaar Rally to be organised in Chandigarh on May 30.

“The state as well as the Central governments had promised that anganwari workers and helpers would be given minimum wages after the elections. The Central government completed three years, but the ‘acche din’ for anganwadi workers are yet to come,” she said.

She said even Capt Amarinder Singh had promised that the demands of anganwadi workers would be fulfilled on a priority after the formation of the Congress government in the state, but even the state government has not addressed the concerns of the union so far.

Bhinder Kaur Gosal, general secretary of the union at the district level, said anganwadi workers would reach Chandigarh for the rally, adding that the government must fulfil the promises made to lakhs of anganwadi workers, otherwise the workers would have to intensify their struggle, she said.