Mid-day meal workers stage dharna seeking budget relief

The Karnataka State United Akshara Dasoha (Mid-Day Meal) Workers’ Union, Mysuru, staged a dharna extracurricular the Zilla Panchayat bureau present connected January 17, urging the Union authorities to fulfil the long-pending demands of mid-day repast workers successful the forthcoming Union Budget.

The protesters urged the Centre to guarantee the payment of mid-day repast workers. One of the cardinal demands is for mid-day repast workers to beryllium recognised arsenic authorities employees. Until specified designation is granted, the workers’ national demanded that workers beryllium provided with minimum wages and different statutory benefits.

The protesters besides sought periodic revisions of honorariums successful enactment with rising prices, on with the proviso of status pensions, Employees’ State Insurance, and provident money benefits. In addition, they demanded a one-time gratuity of astatine slightest ₹5 lakh for workers retiring aft rendering agelong years of service.

Opposing immoderate determination to manus implicit the mid-day repast strategy to backstage agencies oregon non-governmental organisations, the protesters insisted that the programme should proceed to beryllium implemented straight by the government.

The protesters said that a memorandum outlining their demands volition beryllium submitted to the Prime Minister done the bureau of the Mysuru Zilla Panchayat CEO.