MDM union demands payment of honorarium
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, April 05 2023:
Demanding their rightful honorarium which has not been paid since October 2022, Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Workers' Union Manipur has urged school heads to stop discrimination of school cooks.
In a release, the union said that the government has paid no heed to the demand of the mid-day meal workers whose honorarium of Rs 1000 per month, has not been paid for the last 7 months despite declaration by the cooks that they will cease work if the honorarium is not released.
In addition, some of school headmasters and members of the school managing committee have been ill-treating the cooks and even relieving them from service at' the slightest instance of taking leave, the union charged.
There are also some school headmasters who are kind enough to extend financial support, the union said while appealing to the authority concerned to release the pending honorarium at the earliest and also to stop looking down on the mid-day meal workers.