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Anganwadi workers strike work in Vellore

Special Correspondent

VELLORE: Anganwadi workers, belonging to the Tamil Nadu Anganwadi Employees and Assistants Association, Vellore, went on a day’s strike on Tuesday in support of their 10-point charter of demands.

They staged an agitation in front of the Collectorate.

Their demands included integrating all schemes connected with children’s development, regularisation of services and treating them as third and fourth grade workers with suitable payscales, equal wages for equal work, providing the benefits of Provident Fund, pension and other social security measures to the workers, grant of pension to all retired anganwadi workers, grant of weekly holiday and enhancement of the grant for purchase of foodgrains.

G. Latha, Gudiyatham MLA, inaugurated the agitation. G.M. Prabhavathy, district president (Integrated Child Development Scheme), Tamil Nadu Anganwadi Employees and Assistants Association, presided.

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