Staff Reporter

Shillong, 16: Midday Meal Workers have threatened to stop performing their school duties from November 2023 if the state government fails to release their three-month pending honorarium.

Speaking to media persons, president of the Cook cum Helper under the PM Poshan scheme Banalis Syiem said that recently the state government has promised to release the pending honorarium of six months but has only released three months.

Syiem said that till date the cook cum helper has not received the honorarium for the month of July, August and September 2023 and this has forced some of the helpers in different parts of the state to refrain from attending their school duties.

“We provide time to the state government till October 2023, to release the pending three months honorarium failing which we will call for a mass agitation by refraining ourselves to performing our duties in our respective assigned school” said Syiem.

Syiem said that this mass agitation will be in the entire state and this will have a great impact on the school children who are benefited from the midday meal scheme.

She added that from time to time Cook cum Helper of the Midday Meal Workers have impressed upon the state government to increase the honorarium but till date, their demands have not been met.

“We urged upon chief minister Conrad K Sangma to take up our issues with prime minister Narendra Modi so that Cook cum Helper of the Midday Meal Workers in the state are benefited from various schemes of the central government” she added.