HYDERABAD: A government job would be given to the kin of anganwadi workers who had died of Covid-19, finance minister T Harish Rao announced this in Huzurabad on Sunday.
Addressing a thanksgiving meeting held by NGOs and anganwadi workers in Huzurabad, the finance minister promised that salaries would be paid in the first week, 450 anganwadi staff would be promoted to supervisors and eligible workers would be given double-bedroom house as well as pension.
He said that the BJP government in Gujarat did not pay half of the salary given to anganwadi workers in Telangana and asked them to support the TRS government. “Their services are very important and TRS government has increased salaries,” he said, adding during that previous governments horses trampled on anganwadi workers when they had asked for salary hike. tnn
