People's
Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) No. 51
December 29,2002
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) |
Vol.
XXVI No. 51 December 29,2002 |
Honour
Your
FM’s
Announcement
Anganwadi
Leaders
Tell
The
PM
A
DELEGATION
consisting
of
A
R
Sindhu,
secretary
of
the
All
India
Federation
of
Anganwadi
Workers
and
Helpers
and
Basudev
Acharya,
MP
and
general
council
member
of
CITU
met
the
prime
minister,
Atal
Behari
Vajpayee
and
demanded
that
the
required
government
order
(GO)
for
implementing
the
enhancement
of
honorarium
for
anganwadi
workers
and
helpers,
which
was
announced
by
the
then
finance
minister,
Yashwant
Sinha,
for
this
fiscal
year,
may
be
released
immediately.
It
may
be
noted
that
the
budgetary
provision
for
the
proposed
enhancement
has
been
made,
but
the
government
has
not
issued
the
GO
even
9
months
after
the
announcement,
causing
a
lot
of
resentment
among
the
anganwadi
employees.
Already,
there
are
reports
from
several
states
that
they
are
expressing
their
anger
through
mass
action
including
burning
of
effigies
of
the
unresponsive
central
government.
The
prime
minister,
although
did
not
give
any
assurance
of
issuing
the
GO,
told
the
delegation
that
whatever
announcement
is
made
by
the
government,
that
should
be
implemented.
He
assured
that
he
will
consider
the
matter
and
find
out
why
the
GO
has
not
been
issued.
The
delegation
submitted
a
memorandum
to
the
prime
minister,
which
was
signed
by
various
MPs,
demanding
the
immediate
implementation
of
the
enhancement
of
honorarium.
The
delegation
showed
the
prime
minister
clippings
of
the
various
advertisements
from
the
ministry
of
HRD
announcing
the
enhancement
of
honorarium
as
their
achievement.
They
also
submitted
to
him
the
letter
written
by
Ms
Sumitra
Mahajan,
the
then
minister
for
state
of
HRD,
to
various
MPs
stating
the
government
approved
the
enhancement
of
honorarium.
