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Mind the Gap -Namita Bhandare

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published Published on May 1, 2022   modified Modified on May 1, 2022

-Hindustan Times 

THE BIG STORY: How five Adivasi women and a Gandhian activist scored a huge win for anganwadi workers

After 21 years of service when Maniben Maganbhai Bhariya, an Adivasi women working as an anganwadi helper in district Dahod, Gujarat, retired on February 20, 2006 she was drawing a salary of Rs 1,250 a month. Based on this, Maniben was entitled to a one-time gratuity of Rs 14,423.

Seven years later when even that sum hadn’t been paid to her, she filed an application to the prescribed authority. Yes, she was owed the money, the authority agreed. Yes, she was owed the money, an appellate authority confirmed. Yes, she was owed gratuity ruled a single judge bench of the Gujarat High Court in 2016.

But the state government appealed against the verdict and a division bench then ruled that Maniben and four others, Lunjiben Vasoya, Champaben Bhariya, Mangaliben and Rupliben Dangya, all Adivasi women who worked as anganwadi workers and helpers and who had retired after 21 to 31 years of service, were not employees and, hence, could not receive gratuity.

Undaunted, the five women, now in their seventies, aided by Jayantgiri H Goswami, a Gandhian activist with the Majdoor Mahajan Sangh, a union set up by Mahatma Gandhi for textile workers in 1917, went to the Supreme Court.

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Hindustan Times, 1 May, 2022, https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-newsletter/htmindthegap.html


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