Anganwari staff cane-charged
Thursday, 11/07/2013
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Sangrur : The local police today resorted to a mild lathicharge to disperse protesting anganwari workers and helpers who were trying to enter the district administrative complex to stage a dharna.
The workers were protesting against the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development as it has reportedly refused to accept recommendations of the Indian Labour Conference with regard to giving minimum wages to them. Earlier, hundreds of anganwari workers and helpers, led by state president of the Anganwari Mulazam Union Usha Rani, gathered at the local railway station and rallied towards the district administrative complex. Seeing the main gates of the complex closed, the protesters tried to scale its boundary wall.
To thwart their attempts, the police personnel deployed there resorted to a mild lathicharge. Some women constables allegedly manhandled anganwari workers to keep them away from the complex.
Decrying the police action, Usha Rani said a couple of workers were injured and one fell unconscious. She alleged even male police personnel hit them with lathis.
Station House Officer (SHO) of the city police station Harinder Singh claimed the police had not lathicharged the protesters. He said they had just stopped them from entering the complex by scaling its boundary wall.
Later, a deputation of the anganwari workers submitted a memorandum of their demands to Additional Deputy Commissioner Pritam Singh Johl.
