Srinagar: Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) workers on Wednesday protested in the summer capital, Srinagar, demanding release of wages pending from last three years.
Scores of ICDS workers, under the banner of J&K Helpers to Supervisors Association in ICDS department, assembled at Press Enclave in Srinagar on Wednesday and demanded that their wages, which are pending from last three years, be released immediately.
Raising slogans in famous of their demands, the workers said their posts should be sanctioned as 850 women are working as helpers in the department. “We have not been paid wages from last three years. Whenever we ask for our salaries, they officials say that our posts are not sanctioned. But how are 850 women working as helpers in the department if our posts are not sanctioned,” the General Secretary of J&K Helpers to Supervisors Association, told reporters.
“Now, we want them to sanction our post if it has not been done so far. Two of our helpers have already attempted suicide due to depression following nonpayment of salaries. Most of the women working as helpers are widows or from poor families,” she said.
She urged the officials to release their wages immediately so that they can cater to the need of their families. “If our posts were not released, then how were we receiving our wages before this,” another protestor asked.
