Botsa issues ultimatum to Andanwadi workers

Visakhapatnam: Education Minister Botsa Satyanarayana has given an ultimatum to the striking Anganwadi workers that alternative arrangements would be made to distribute kits to the mothers if they failed to distribute them from January 5.
 
“These kits are essential to the mothers,” he told the media during the closing event of  Gadapa Gadapa Ki Mana Prabutvam at Pakki village in Bobbili mandal of  Vizianagaram on Sunday.
 
The minister said the Anganwadi workers went on strike to press their 11 demands, of which the government agreed to meet 10. The one demand kept aside was a salary hike.

“But the chief minister had promised them that the hike would be effected in two months of the YSRC returning to power after the polls,’’ the minister said.

He said their demand for salary hike was genuine but it was not proper to demand a hike in the wages every time the Telangana government increased the salaries there.

“When their salary was low in Telangana, the AP government gave them more.”

For the last 10 days, the state’s anganwadi workers and helpers union (CITU), the AP Anganwadi workers and helpers association (AITUC) and the AP progressive anganwadi workers and helpers union are on strike in support of their 11-point demands.