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The Joint Action Committee of Karnataka State Anganwadi Workers’ Union has decided to spell connected onslaught astatine Freedom Park successful Bengaluru from November 6, demanding that gratuity (retirement allowance) beryllium fixed to each those who person been continuously serving arsenic Anganwadi workers and helpers since 1975 and person retired since 2011-12 arsenic per the Payment of Gratuity Act 1972 and the Supreme Court verdict.
Speaking astatine a property league present connected Friday, M. Jayamma, wide caput of the union, said, “The Supreme Court has ruled connected April 25, 2022, that Anganwadi workers and helpers moving nether the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) of the Women and Child Development Department are eligible to person gratuity nether the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972.”
She emphasised that Anganwadi idiosyncratic enactment is not part-time, but afloat time. However, the authorities is not paying them due salaries and different benefits, she said. The remuneration received by Anganwadi workers is besides taxable to the explanation of salary, she argued.
The government’s determination to supply gratuity to those who discontinue aft 2023 should beryllium modified and the gratuity should beryllium applicable to each those who joined the work from 1975 and retired from 2011-12, she demanded.
