Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 26: CPI-M leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami today batted strongly for fulfilling the demands of Anganwari Workers, Helpers and Helpers to Supervisors by the Jammu and Kashmir Government and releasing the salaries of Supervisors and wages of Workers, Helpers and Helpers to Supervisors, which have been pending for more than seven months.
“The insensitive approach of the State Government towards the long pending legitimate demands of Anganwari Supervisors, Workers, Helpers and Helpers to Supervisors is unfortunate. Their demands should be fulfilled without any further delay. The salaries of Anganwari Supervisors and wages of Workers and Helpers working under ICDS, pending for several months must be released immediately,” he said in a statement, issued here today.
Flaying the Government for not heeding to the concerns of workers under Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), he cautioned that such attitude has created uncertainty among the Workers, Helpers and Helpers to Supervisors.
“More deplorable is the attitude of the Department towards the Helpers to Supervisors who are being treated as surplus after working for years together. These Helpers who have greatly contributed in making the scheme viable in the State have been pushed to the wall and the State Government seems to be insensitive towards their well-being,” he said and added that many of these Workers have crossed the upper age limit and now face critical situation of losing their livelihood. The department should ensure that their livelihood is not put at stake and initiate urgent measures for absorbing them in the scheme, he said
Tarigami also cautioned the Government against the move to introduce direct/conditional cash transfers and packaged food in ICDS. “Locally acceptable food freshly prepared in the Anganwari centres should be served to the beneficiaries and not ‘Ready to Eat food’. There should be no Take Home Ration,” he said and added that the weakening of ICDS can lead to overall weakening of the trade union movement, particularly among the women and rural workers.
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