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Wednesday, Jun 09, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Anganwadi workers seek job security

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JUNE 8. The Andhra Pradesh Anganwadi Workers and Helpers' Union has urged the Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, to take steps to solve the problems confronting the union members such as job insecurity and non-payment of wages for additional work.

B. Lalithamma, president, and P. Roja, general secretary, told a press conference here on Tuesday that the union had submitted a memorandum to Dr. Reddy on June 7 demanding additional salary for work done by the Anganwadi employees in BPL surveys, family planning operations and formation of self-help groups, as was done in other States.

The memorandum sought scrapping of Government Order 20, which enables the administration to remove from service Anganwadi employees, and provide them employment through selection, as was the practice earlier. It urged the Government to ease budgetary restrictions on salary payments, pay TA and DA to ayahs, conduct examinations to promote Anganwadi workers as supervisors and promote helpers as workers.

The memorandum also demanded action by the Government to hold a joint State-level meeting with representatives of the union and ICDS officials to pay Rs.1,000 as festival allowance to each Anganwadi worker and to recognised members of the union.

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