Mumbai : The State government has decided to hike stipend of Anganwadi workers who had been agitating over the issue.
“All the formalities regarding pay hike for Anganwadi workers have been completed and the director of the integrated child development scheme has been directed to implement the same with immediate effect,” minister for women and child welfare Pankaja Munde told reporters here on Thursday.
The previous government had promised the hike for them from April 2014. But, the budgetary provision for the funds had not been made. The issue kept lingering and lead to their agitation.
“The government has decided to pay the revised stipend with retrospective effect from April 2015. The difference in stipend for the year between 2014 and 2015 April too would be paid at a later stage,” the minister added.
According to the decision, the Anganwadi workers will now get Rs 5,000 as stipend, while workers in mini Anganwadies would get Rs 3,500 and attendants would get Rs 2,500.
The total expenditureon stipend for Anganwadi workers is Rs 892.4 crore annually, finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said.
There are 97,475 approved posts of Anganwadi sevikas, while presently there are 95,341 sevikas in service.
There are 97,475 approved posts of Anganwadi attendants while there are 92,023 attendants in service. Similarly, there are 11,175 approved posts of mini-anganwadi workers while the total workers in service are 9,898.
