SHILLONG, Aug 11: The Meghalaya Mid-day Meal Workers’ Union has threatened to agitate if the state government fails to increase their honorarium by August-end. The workers are currently being paid Rs 1,000 per month.
Advisor of the union Kenneth Shadap lamented that the state government had turned a blind eye to their long-pending demand.
Not only this, the workers are paid the honorarium only ten months in a year, Shadap said.
In a letter addressed to Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Thursday, Shadap recalled that the Meghalaya Upper Primary School Teachers’ Association (MUPSTA) has highlighted the plight of the mid-day meal workers in all their memorandums to the government since 2018.
Shadap is the president of MUPSTA.
