Mid Day Meal Workers Union related CITU state committee meeting concluded at CITU office Shimla

CITU state president Vijendra Mehra, district secretary Ramakant Mishra, union president Indra Singh were present in the meeting , General Secretary Himi Devi, Poonam, Virendra, Shanti, Rajmila, Gurdas, Rita, Sulakshana, Preeti, Santosh, Janaki, Meera Khan, Veer Singh, Sudesh, Vineet, Sandeep, Sunita Negi, Vinod and Bachchan Singh etc were present.

CITU State President Vijendra Mehra, District Secretary Ramakant Mishra, Union State President Indra Singh and General Secretary Himi Devi while addressing the meeting said that in many parts of the state, mid day meal workers have not been paid their salary for the last several months. In many places, they have not been paid their salary. They are not even getting the salary of Rs 4500 announced by the government. He has warned that if the demands of the mid day meal workers are not resolved, the union will launch a state-wide agitation. He has demanded that the mid day meal workers should be given the salary as decided by the Hon’ble Himachal High Court. The union has welcomed the decision to pay twelve months’ salary and has called it a victory of the fifteen-year-long judicial struggle of the mid-day meal workers. The facility given to the mid-day meal workers by the Punjab government and the one given to the Anganwadi workers in Himachal Pradesh On the lines of the facility given, mid day meal workers should be given the facility of 12 to 20 holidays. They should be given two uniforms in a year. Mid day meal workers should be given priority in multi task recruitment. They should be given extra salary for extra work. Closed Like other staff in the schools, mid-day meal workers should also be accommodated in other schools. The condition of having 25 children for their job should be removed. Two mid-day meal workers should be compulsorily appointed in every school. As per the recommendation of the 45th Indian Labour Conference, mid-day meal workers should be given the status of labourers and they should be given regular employment. Let’s do.

The speakers said that the Modi government of the country is continuing to attack the working class. The central government is not implementing the scheme of giving workers the status of workers, pension, gratuity, health etc. as per the condition of the 45th Labor Conference. The central government is not implementing the scheme of giving workers the status of workers, pension, gratuity, health etc. The governments in power have not increased the salary of mid-day meal workers by even a rupee after 2009. Modi government wants to hand over this scheme to corporate companies. This is the reason why the budget of this scheme is being continuously cut. Modi government has hatched a well-planned conspiracy to end the Mid Day Meal Scheme by changing its name to Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Yojana. The government is starting central kitchen and DBT in the Mid Day Meal Scheme, due to which the layoff of Mid Day Meal workers is certain. The central government has come up with a new education policy, which will lead to large-scale privatization. By doing all this, the BJP government wants to end the employment of mid-day meal workers. Many schools have been closed in the state and many mid-day meal workers have been closed. The workers have been fired from their jobs. He said that the vacant posts of mid-day meal workers in schools should be filled immediately.