Monday, 27 September 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
Alleging that the Uttarakhand government has cheated them once again by not taking up their demands in the recent cabinet meeting, the Anganwadi workers have warned of boycotting work across the state.
The president of the Anganwadi workers union Rekha Negi alleged that the government here has constantly fooled and cheated the workers by blatantly giving them false assurances but they will not tolerate this harassment anymore. She stated that the government has changed three chief ministers this year but none of them did anything for the Anganwadi workers. She stated, “We started our protest from December 2019 and since then, various government representatives and the then CMs assured us that our demands are valid and will be presented in the cabinet meetings but they never did it.”
She said that the government here talks about women empowerment but women in Anganwadi are not even given enough monthly allowance despite being given additional works under various departments which are not even associated with women and child welfare in any way. She said that if the government continues to ignore their demands without any response soon, the Anganwadi workers will intensify their protest by boycotting their work across the state.
