Summary:
This has come as a double whammy for workers who are already working under a lot of stress. “We have been requesting the Department to increase our wages but instead of increasing our allowance, they have increased our work sans any additional allowance. This means that cooks will end up cleaning utensils of around 100 students each, that too without any money for the labour. Another midday meal worker, Surinder Kaur, said at present, the mid day meal workers were cleaning the utensils in the school but were being paid extra amount for the same by the school. Our school pays extra to get the utensils cleaned but asking kids to do their work themselves will help them in the long run.”.