Harish Rao urges CM to pay full salaries to workers of upgraded Anganwadis
HYDERABAD
Senior leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and former minister T. Harish Rao has requested Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to recognise the mini Anganwadi centres as main Anganwadis officially and pay full salaries to Anganwadi workers, though they were upgraded on paper over a year ago.
In an open letter addressed to the Chief Minister on Tuesday, he stated that the Congress government had copied the orders (GO) issued by the previous BRS government and claimed it as its own. The Anganwadi workers were paid full salaries (as teachers) only for three months initially and later they were being paid the half (previous) salaries.
Mr. Harish Rao recollected that the previous BRS government had upgraded mini Anganwadis as main centres and increased the salaries of Anganwadi workers by issuing orders on September 5 in 2023. However, they could not be implemented due to the election code of conduct, which came into effect a few days later.
After coming to power, the Congress government had issued a GO on December 15 in 2023 and it was the first file signed by Minister for Women Development and Child Welfare Seethakka. It was nothing but the GO issued by the BRS government in the past. The upgraded Anganwadi workers were paid ₹13,650 per month from January to March in 2024, against ₹7,800 per month paid in the past.
He questioned the rationale and sincerity of the government as to how it could reduce their salary to ₹7,800 a month after increasing it to ₹13,650 per month. Perhaps, the Congress government in Telangana could be the only State in the country to have started a tradition of reducing the increased salaries. It was nothing but snatching the morsel from the mouth of women employees at the village level.
The BRS leader pointed out that the salaries of April payable in May were given to Anganwadi teachers and workers only in eight districts and sought to know why the payment for their month's work was not made. He asked whether the mini Anganwadis were only tools of publicity for the government and demanded that they be paid full (increased) salaries from January last year.
Further, he suggested the government appoint helpers in every upgraded mini Anganwadi centre — 3,989 in all — and the salaries of April be paid in all districts immediately.
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