Garhshankar, March 23: Mid-day meal workers union and Democratic ASHA and facilitators union have demanded an increase in remuneration in the budget session. Mid-day meal workers union leaders Balwinder Kaur, Kamaljit Kaur, Democratic ASHA workers union leaders Sushma, Kiran Bala, Baby and Rawal Kaur and DMF leaders Hans Raj Garhshankar, Satpal Kaler said that before the assembly elections, the leaders of the then main opposition Aam Aadmi Party had made promises to various sections regarding their demands.
Similarly, the then Aam Aadmi Party leaders and Bhagwant Mann had also promised the honorarium workers that as soon as the government is formed, the honorarium received by the mid-day meal workers will be increased from three thousand to six thousand and similarly the remuneration of ASHA and facilitators will be doubled. But despite the passage of three years, the government has not taken any action.
What was the honorarium to be increased, but every month new letters are being issued to increase the various tasks of the honorarium workers and orders are being given to prepare new types of food. The leaders demanded that it is very difficult to survive in this period of inflation and the honorarium should be increased to eighteen thousand rupees by implementing the minimum wage law on the honorarium workers. Two types of uniforms should be given according to two seasons in a year, and every worker should be given free insurance of five lakhs.
Honorarium workers warned the government that if the government does not accept their demands soon, their organization will be forced to struggle at the Punjab level.