Anganwadi workers in Vizag stage relay hunger strike, demand hike in wages

Anganwadi workers launched a relay hunger strike, successful effect to the telephone fixed by the Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union, which is affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU). The demonstrated adjacent the Gandhi statue, adjacent the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC), demanding an summation successful wages connected Tuesday.

CITU person Kumar Mangalam, who inaugurated the relay hunger strike, said it was unfortunate that Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu, who had promised to hike salaries of anganwadi workers earlier the elections, had failed to bash truthful aft assuming bureau arsenic Chief Minister. He added that the prices of indispensable commodities had skyrocketed implicit the past six years, portion the wages of anganwadi workers had remained the same, causing them untold hardships. The indifference of the State authorities towards their woes, helium said, forced anganwadi workers to motorboat the relay hunger strike.