After over 46 days of relentless protests at Mumbai's Azad Maidan, more than 1000 anganwadi workers have finally resumed work from January 29th, 2024.
The workers were on strike since December 4th, 2023 demanding pension, gratuity, better infrastructure, with raise in rent for anganwadi centres, mobile phones and timely salary among other demands.
Mumbai has 927 anganwadi centres and 924 anganwadi workers; the suburbs have 4,220 centres and 4,197 workers.
In the 16 anganwadi centres in rural and urban Maharashtra that The Hindu visited, most were run from homes in urban slums, on the corridors of apartments or temples, or from the verandas of kutcha houses in villages.
Even those spaces were completely shutdown since the strike.
However, the workers were not successful in demanding an increase in the meal cost per child per day.
The breakthrough came on January 26th, after a two and a half hour meeting with the Secretary of Women and Child Development and Integrated Child Development Services, who approved most of their demands.
Reporting: Purnima Sah
Visuals: Purnima Sah, Gautham Doshi, Getty images and The Hindu Archives
Production and Voiceover: Yuvasree S
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