Release salaries to anganwadi workers: Manish Sisodia
2 March 2018 3:26 PM IST
New Delhi: Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia Thursday directed officers to expeditiously resolve the issues behind non-payment of salaries to anganwadi workers. He pulled up the officers for ostensibly keeping him in the dark about the matter.
He directed that the funds for this purpose may be released as a grant "under anticipation of approval for Revised Estimates or in the form of loan, advances, etc."
The L-G further stated that the department concerned has informed him that payments for the remaining months are pending as the funds provided in the Budget 2017-18 for this purpose have already been exhausted.
Over the past four months, anganwadi workers in the city have held several protests over non-payment of salaries, as well to demand increase of their honorarium. Sisodia directed the principal secretary (Finance) to call the Women and Child Development (WCD) secretary for a meeting, and hammer out a solution to release salaries to anganwadi workers immediately.
On Wednesday, Sisodia had written to Lt-Governor Anil Baijal flagging the issue. The "inefficiency" of the bureaucrats was behind the delay in payments to the workers, he had alleged in the letter.
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