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AHMEDABAD: In a significant judgment that will benefit lakhs of anganwadi workers and helpers across the country, the Gujarat High Court has directed the state and Union governments to treat them at par with regularly selected permanent employees holding civil posts. Observing that the discrimination of AWWs and AWHs with respect to government employees "is writ large", the court of …

The district-level conference of the anganwadi workers’ federation held in Mysuru on Sunday sought job security, including pension on retirement from service. The federation members said the Integrated Child Development Service was launched 49 years ago and anganwadi workers have ensured the success of the project through their unwavering commitment. Hence, the federation members, backed by the All-India Trade Union …

The members of Anganwadi Mulazim Union Punjab CITU protested outside the Mini Secretariat in Ludhiana, for more than 3 hours, blocking Ferozepur road, causing inconvenience to the commuters who were forced to use the service lane. A distance of 15 minutes turns into 45 to 50 minutes, causing inconvenience and chaos.” During the protest, the union’s general secretary Bhinder Kaur …

The government on Thursday during the Budget 2024-25 session announced the extension of healthcare coverage under Ayushman Bharat to all ASHA and anganwadi workers. “The health cover under the Ayushman Bharat scheme will be extended to all ASHA and Anganwadi workers and helpers,” said the Finance Minister during her Union Budget 2024-25 speech. Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri-Jan Arogya Yojana is …

Tirupati: Hundreds of Anganwadi workers took to the streets of Tirupati on Tuesday for a 'jail bharo' agitation to highlight their demands and condemn the imposition of ESMA on their strike. As the standoff escalated, police detained several Anganwadi workers and trade union leaders. Addressing the gathering, CITU, AITUC and IFTU leaders Kandarapu Murali, K Radhakrishna and R Harikrishna criticised …

Visakhapatnam: Anganwadi workers, led by union president V. Lakshmi, stopped minister Botsa Satyanarayana's car on Monday in Vizianagaram, demanding an end to the Essential Services Maintenance Act and fulfillment of their demands. Lakshmi presented a memorandum outlining their demands, including revoking Esma, wage increases, and full implementation of welfare schemes. He specified that wage hikes would occur after the upcoming …

Visakhapatnam: The Anganwadi Workers and Helpers’ Union in Vizag district staged a protest, using the holy symbol of the cross representing Jesus Christ. Mani drew a parallel, stating that Reddy's actions resembled the punishment Jesus Christ endured while advocating for the liberation of slaves. The agitation continued for the 14th day at the GVMC Gandhi statue, where Anganwadi workers recreated …

About one lakh Anganwadi workers and helpers are participating in a State-wide agitation from Tuesday, demanding a solution to their long-pending demands. Pragathiseela Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union State general secretary V.R. “The Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Unions, affiliated to CITU, IFTU and AITUC, were agitating for the last four years demanding implementation of the poll promises made by Chief …

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RSS trade union arm to protest Centre’s policies again

The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, the trade union arm of the Sangh Parivar, will hold its second protest rally against the BJP-led Union Government in a span of just one month. They are the frontline workers implementing Union government programmes such as the Integrated Child Development Services and the National Health Mission. ‘Not temporary work’ Anganwadi teachers and helpers, government school …

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The Bombay High Court directed the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development to rectify the mobile application for anganwadi workers and ensure its availability in regional languages, as well, within three months. In the meantime, the Centre must refrain from withholding allotment of food grains to anganwadi centres within Maharashtra for failure to feed the beneficiary's Aadhaar data in …

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The Centre of Indian Trade Unions has approached the International Labour Organisation against the Haryana and Delhi Governments for retrenching 975 and 991 anganwadi workers respectively for striking work demanding an increase in honorarium. CITU general secretary Tapan Sen said in his complaint to Director, Bureau for Workers Activities of the ILO Maria Helena Andre that the retrenchments have taken …

After trouncing Rahul Gandhi in his Amethi bastion in 2019, Union minister Smriti Irani appears to have set her sights on the Congress leader’s parliamentary constituency of Wayanad in Kerala. Wayanad, a hilly district 450 km away from Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram, is one of the 112 districts under the Aspirational Districts Programme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January …

Hundreds of angawadi workers and helpers will continue their strike as the Delhi government’s meeting with the unions on Monday proved to be inconclusive. Delhi State Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union, which has been organising the indefinite strike, did not take part in the meeting. Demanding higher wages, women anganwadi workers and helpers, under the banner of DSAWHU, have been …

Full text: FM Nirmala Sitharaman unveils Union Budget 2022; 5G roll out by 2023, no change in income tax rates

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday presented the Union Budget 2022 in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the highlights were an annoucement that E-passports using embedded chips and futuristic tech will be rolled out; 400 new generation Vande Bharat trains with better efficiency to be brought in during the next three years; 100 PM Gati Shakti Cargo …

A three judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising of Justice Ashok Bhushan, Justice Subhash Reddy and Justice M.R. Shah directed the Union of India, States and Union Territories to reopen the anganwadi centres situated outside the containment zones, which were closed due to pandemic, to provide nutritional support to children, pregnant women and lactating mothers in accordance with the …