Publish Date: | Tue, 08 Mar 2022 04:02 AM (IST)
Sagar (Navdunia representative). The strike of Anganwadi workers of the district started from Monday, demanding declaration of Anganwadi workers and assistants as government wage earners and many other demands. Due to the overcrowding of workers at three Madhiya Tiraha, there was a long traffic jam for more than one kilometer, due to which people were troubled by the jam from the main road to the surrounding streets. Alam was that many times other vehicles including ambulances were seen stuck in the jam.
In fact, there are demands for payment of Rs. 1500 withheld arrears, one lakh to the worker and 75 thousand rupees to the assistants after retirement as announced by the Chief Minister, promotion of workers and assistants without examination, provision of compassionate appointment etc. In the past, many memorandums were given to the Chief Minister by Anganwadi workers and assistants regarding this. When the Anganwadi workers did not hear even after giving warnings in advance, they started a sit-in demonstration in the three Madhiya area near the bus stand. Union’s divisional president Leela Sharma said that till the demands are not fulfilled, our strike will continue sequentially.
Strike in all districts of MP including division
Like other districts of MP, a gradual strike organized under the leadership of Divisional President Leela Sharma in Sagar division has started in all the districts simultaneously. He said that the Anganwadi workers are on an unrelenting strike to remind them of the promises made by the Chief Minister to the Anganwadi workers and sisters and the strike will continue till the workers and helpers are declared as government wage earners. He said that all our members are attached to each and every house of the ward and many schemes of the government are completed with our cooperation, but we have not been declared as government salary earners yet.
Women and Child Development Office under the protection of mafia
Supporting the strike, Pappu Tiwari, patron of the Sangh and Shiv Sena, while addressing the workers at the site of the strike, said that the Sagar Women’s Child Development Office is running under the protection of nutritional food mafia. The District Program Officer is continuously involved in rigging the tenders for 11 years by giving open protection to the mafias who take the contract of nutrition food. The corruption of nutrition food mafia is at its peak in the Department of Women and Child Development. Former MLA Sunil Jain, who came to support the strike, justified the strike of Anganwadi workers.
There was a jam in the streets, the pandal was small
Due to the arrival of Anganwadi workers and assistants at the site of the strike, the pandal in the three Madhiya area got smaller. During this, many women were seen shouting slogans sitting on the stairs of nearby temples and nearby shops due to excessive sunlight. During this, passers-by were also seen stopping their vehicles after seeing the vehicles of many protesters standing and women demonstrating in such a large number, due to which there was a situation of traffic jam in and around the three Madhiya streets. Due to the laying of sewer line, the road has been dug at many places, due to which the jam was seen so long at times that there was a jam of vehicles till the Parkota One-Way Road and the Teen Batti. At the same time, the situation of traffic jam remained in the streets of Shanichari, Friday area also. During the demonstration, hundreds of Anganwadi workers, assistants from across the district including Rajshree Dubey, Mamta Tiwari, Lilamani Yadav, Lakshmi Chaurasia, Aarti Jain, Rajbai, Rekha, Durga Lodhi, Kiran Shukla, Manju Sharma, Sabita Sahu, Mamta Dwivedi, Parvati, Nidhi Chaurasia was present.
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