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Over 50,000 anganwadi workers and helpers working in nearly 27,000 centres across Punjab have not received their honorarium for the past six months. The workers get ₹11,000 per month, of which ₹4,500 is the honorarium component. This includes ₹3,000 from the Centre and ₹1,500 from the state government. However, since April, this amount has not been credited into their accounts, union leaders alleged.
Fed up with the delay, the childcare workers staged a massive protest outside the office of the Social Security Department in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
Union members said the deputy director of the Social Security Department had sought two to three days to resolve the issue, after which they would chalk out their next course of action.They said that if the issue is not resolved, they would restrict the entry of Social Security Minister Dr Baljit Kaur to villages.Punjab Anganwadi Employees Union president Hargobind Kaur alleged that despite repeated reminders, the honorarium component provided by the Centre has not been released for six months. “For the last two months, we have been in talks with the department, but the officials are only buying time. On September 17, we even served notice for a protest. Yet till today, nothing has been credited to our accounts,” Hargobind Kaur said.She added that while the workers continue to receive around ₹6,500 per month from the state government for other social security works, the honorarium remains unpaid. “Already the monthly payout is the bare minimum, and now a major chunk is being withheld. We have learnt that the Centre has released its share, but the state government is not releasing it by adding its own contribution,” she alleged.Hargobind Kaur was terminated by the Punjab government last year after joining the Shiromani Akali Dal, but continues to head the union.
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