Scheme workers demand minimum wages, recognition as workers

New Delhi: 27th November 2012

About 50,000 'scheme workers', majority of them women, from 24 states converged on Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Monday for a two-day maha padao (sit-in protest) organized by CITU, the trade union affiliated to CPM. Among them are anganwadi wokers, social health activists, mid-day meal workers, para teachers, krishak sathis and thousands of women who work in various flagship schemes of the Centre, but are not paid even minimum wages.

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