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In a stringent enactment against those not participating arsenic enumerators successful the ongoing Social and Educational Survey, the State authorities has fixed the sack to six anganwadi workers successful Raichur district.
This comes days aft the State Cabinet decided to instrumentality disciplinary enactment against those skipping the survey work.
This sweeping enactment has drawn the ire of the Karnataka State Anganwadi Workers Union, which has threatened a State-wide agitation if the dismissal bid is not withdrawn.
The national has argued that galore anganwadi workers bash not person smartphones required to download the app for the survey and the authorities without providing capable facilities cannot importune that they enactment successful the survey.
Those who person been dismissed are Gundamma, Rangamma, Muthamma, Chand Bi, Vijayalakshmi, and Renuka from Deodurg taluk.
In the order, the Deputy Director of the Department of Women and Child Development, Raichur, alleged that these women not lone did not crook up for the survey enactment contempt respective reminders from their supervisors but besides instigated others to skip work.
He said the advancement of the survey had been hampered due to the fact that of these six people.
Varalakshmi, president, Karnataka State Anganwadi Workers’ Union, said anganwadi workers were expected to usage their ain smartphones for the survey, and the supra six were precise mediocre and did not person them.
“When the smartphone contented was flagged, officials told them to get the devices either from their husbands oregon others and bash the survey. This is unacceptable. It is not due to expect anganwadi workers to enactment [in the survey] without providing due facilities and past disregard them for not doing their enactment erstwhile their concerns had already been raised beforehand,“ she said.
