Summary:
Members of the federation said the employees had been working for the past many years, thus they should be brought directly under the ambit of the government department. Contractual and outsourcing workers had been working on meagre salaries and not regularised yet. Inderjit said ASHA workers were being paid hardly Rs 2,000 to Rs 3,000 per month while mid-day meal workers are getting Rs 1,700 per month which was very less to manage their family expenses. In neighbouring Haryana, ASHA workers are paid Rs 10,000 per month and mid-day meal workers Rs 14,000 per month which was three time more what the government in Punjab had been paying. The members demanded that the mid-day meal, ASHA, MGNREGA and anganwari workers must be given a minimum salary of Rs 18,000 per month..