Imphal Jul 13 UNA: Failure on the part of the authority of the Manipur government to clear their pending honorium for 12 months, anganwadi workers and helper under the Central sponsored Integrated Child Development Scheme Saturday threatened to launch a series of agitations.
The threaten was came up barely a day after a workshop held in Imphal has exposed the deplorable state of anganwadi and ICDS centres opened in the state and negligence of the of the implementating authority of the scheme in Manipur.
A statement of the Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union Manipur said that the Union ministry of women and child development had informed a delegation of the union led by its general secretary B Vijayalaxmi that all due for the ICDS Manipur has been sanctioned.
It said the CDPOs and supervisors of the ICDS of the state has been fooling the anganwadi workers in the state saying that the honoraria could not be dispersed as no fund was released from the concerned Union ministry in total contrast to the information provided by the ministry officials.
The Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union Manipur would convene a meeting of the union tomorrow (Sunday) at Imphal’s Irabot Bhavan at 1030 am to discuss the course of agitation to be launched by the union.
On the other hand, a highly reliable source said that the honorariums of anganwadi workers and helpers could not be dispersed as the state finance department failed to issue necessary authorization order for releasing the pending honorariums.
Honorariums for the workers and helpers of anganwadi centres set up under ICDS was to be dispersed from the state social welfare department as the department is the nodal agency for implementing the scheme in Manipur.
Although due correspondence has been made within the government for releasing the pending honorarium, there was a little progress in the official procedure, the source disclosed.
Till October last year, the total number of Anganwadi centres in the state was 9795. Workers and helpers of these 9795 Anganwadi centres have not been getting their monthly honorarium since May last year. As such, their honorarium has been pending for the past 14 months.
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