Ganderbal April 21: Scores of Anganwadi workers and helpers Saturday staged a protest demonstration against the government for ‘failing to release their pending wages from last nine months’.
An eye witness said: The protesting Anganwadi women workers and helpers who assembled at Eidgah Beehama were chanting slogans, ‘we want justice’. They were demanding immediate release of their pending wages of past nine months and were also demanding the regularization of their services.
The eyewitness further said that the protesters later blocked Ganderbal-Soura Road and police resorted to tear gas shelling to disperse the protesters. However, the Anganwadi workers continued the protest.
Protestors said that the government has failed to release their wages from past nine months. “We have not received our salaries from last nine months,” said a protester. She further said that they have been demanding regularization of their services from last one year, but government is not listening to their pleas.
She said that they will continue to stage protests against the government until their demands are not being fulfilled.
