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CITU workers demand 64 crore in a massive protest
The Telangana State Midday Meal Scheme workers’ union under the Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU) conducted a massive dharna at Indira Park on Thursday. The protest was in demand for allocation of Rs 64 crore in budget for the Midday Meal Scheme that recently asked the workers to serve a second egg to students. In addition, the workers demanded increased wages,
The Telangana State Midday Meal Scheme workers’ union under the Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU) conducted a massive dharna at Indira Park on Thursday. The protest was in demand for allocation of Rs 64 crore in budget for the Midday Meal Scheme that recently asked the workers to serve a second egg to students. In addition, the workers demanded increased wages, mess charges, provision of gas subsidy, security to their jobs and regularisation of their services and payment of pending wages and mess bill charges.
About 70,000 workers are affected by the nonpayment of the pending bills from the past six months by the government. In a joint statement, T Chakrapani president and S Rama general secretary of the Telangana State Midday Meal Scheme workers union (CITU) said that they are serving the second egg a week as per the government instructions, but the cost of the said egg is not being reimbursed.
“We made several representations to the government authorities about this. The workers had to raise funds by borrowings from private money lenders at exorbitant interest rates for provision of food items under the Midday Meals Scheme in the absence of wages and mess bills,” said the statement.
There are 25,996 government primary and high schools in the State, of which 2,400 schools have no power supply, 10,200 schools do not have compound walls, 11,000 schools do not have kitchens and a good number do not have toilets.“There is no discussion for allocation of funds under the Midday Meal Scheme in the TS budget,” said the statement.
