Midday meals likely to be disrupted as Anganwadi and MDM workers extend support to strike

The Midday Meal (MDM) programme astatine schools and Anganwadis crossed the State is apt to beryllium disrupted connected February 12 arsenic the MDM workers and Karnataka State Anganwadi Employees’ Unions person extended enactment for the wide onslaught called by commercialized unions against the 4 labour codes implemented by the Union government.

S. Varalakshimi, wide caput of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), said that astir 1.19 lakh MDM workers and 1.60 lakh Anganwadi workers are moving crossed the State, and they volition enactment successful the strike.

Following this, the Department of School Education and Literacy has instructed the schools to instrumentality indispensable alternate measures to debar disruption. The Director of PM Poshan Shakti Nirman Project has issued a enactment to each Deputy Directors astatine the territory level asking them to person MDM unit not to enactment successful the protest. If it fails, the schools are asked to marque alternate arrangements. Praksh G.T. Nittali, Director of MDM PM Poshan, said not each workers are expected to instrumentality portion successful the strike.

Meanwhile, Women and Child Development Department said that it is not alert of Anganwadi workers taking portion successful strike. Even if they do, enactment volition beryllium taken to present meals to the homes of children, said Mahesh Babu N., Director, Directorate of Women and Child Development Department.