Srinagar: Community childcare workers, known as Anganwadi workers (AWWs), and their helpers staged a protest in Srinagar, demanding release of pending wages, regularization of services and other long-pending benefits, highlighting growing frustration over the occupation authorities’ continued indifference to their grievances.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the protesting workers said they have been raising their issues for years, including timely payment of salaries, enhancement of honorarium and provision of pension benefits, but their demands remain igonored.
Raising slogans, the workers called for their issues to be taken up in the IIOJK Assembly so that a concrete policy decision could be taken in their favour. They emphasized that despite playing a crucial role at the grassroots level in child nutrition, health and welfare schemes, they continue to be treated unfairly.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the protesting workers said they have been raising their issues for years, including timely payment of salaries, enhancement of honorarium and provision of pension benefits, but their demands remain igonored.
Raising slogans, the workers called for their issues to be taken up in the IIOJK Assembly so that a concrete policy decision could be taken in their favour. They emphasized that despite playing a crucial role at the grassroots level in child nutrition, health and welfare schemes, they continue to be treated unfairly.