Port Blair, March 23: The Employees of Social Welfare Department will be starting Indefinite agitation under the banner of Non-Gazetted Govt. Officers’ Association, Andaman and Nicobar Islands from tomorrow (24.03.2021) in front of Directorate of Social Welfare in protest against the non-payment of salary/honorarium to ICDS employees and Anganwadi Workers for the past 07 months.

These employees and Anganwadi workers had worked tirelessly during the whole Covid period to implement various welfare schemes of the government and reaching the beneficiaries at their door steps. The employees of the Department had decided to hold a mass demonstration in front of the Directorate of Social Welfare, daily after duty hours, from 24th March onwards. Further the employees will resort to the movement “WORK WITH HUNGER” from 25th March, 2021 onwards where they will boycott their lunch and perform the duty,till the settlement of salary issue, to protest against the apathy and unsympathetic attitude of the authorities.