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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Haryana: Midday meal workers in wage cry, Centre blames state -Basant Kumar Mohanty

Haryana: Midday meal workers in wage cry, Centre blames state -Basant Kumar Mohanty

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published Published on Mar 16, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 16, 2022

-The Telegraph

According to a proposal approved by the cabinet, the central government’s share of the honorarium will remain unchanged till 2025

For 50-year-old Saroj, supporting her four-member family with a paltry honorarium of Rs 3,500 a month she gets for cooking food at a government primary school in Haryana is a daily struggle.

“I have two daughters and a son. All of them are studying in government schools. Neither can I provide necessary study materials nor proper food to them,” Saroj, who works at a school in Dujana village of Jhajjar district, said.

Saroj is one among the 25 lakh women cook-cum-helpers engaged under PM Poshan, which was known as the Midday Meal Scheme till recently. Under the scheme, hot cooked meals are provided to students in government and government-aided schools on days the schools are open. Nearly 10 crore students are benefited by the scheme. For the last two years, students have been getting dry ration and allowance as the pandemic led to school closures.

The central scheme provides for the payment of Rs 1,000 a month to cook-cum-helpers for 10 months in a year, with the states providing the additional amount. For instance, Haryana provides Rs 2,500 to Saroj and her co-workers.

The honorarium was last revised in 2010.

The education ministry’s proposals in March 2019 to double the honorarium and in September 2021 to increase the amount to Rs 3,000 have been rejected by the cabinet. According to a proposal approved by the cabinet, the Centre’s share of the honorarium will remain unchanged till 2025.

“On certain days, we only eat bread. I work for six to seven hours a day. By the time I reach home, I am tired to do any other work,” Saroj said.

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The Telegraph, 16 March, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/haryana-midday-meal-workers-in-wage-cry/cid/1856181


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