RSS-affiliated union demands extension of MGNREGS to 200 daysBharatiya Mazdoor Sangh presses for extending MGNREGS, raising pensions, and improving worker benefits, including for beedi and National He...
26 Jun, 2024, 12.43 AM IST
Centre to send team to review implementation of midday meal scheme in West Bengal"We had read about some reports about irregularities in midday meal (PM Poshan Scheme) in newspapers. On January 5, Leader of Opposition Su...
15 Jan, 2023, 11.48 PM IST
Nearly 10 million anganwadi, ASHA and mid-day meal workers will observe one day nationwide strike on FridayThe joint platform of scheme workers, consisting of the organisations of scheme workers affiliated to the central trade union have called f...
23 Sep, 2021, 07.12 PM IST
Revamp on cards of CPI for agricultural and rural workers: NREGS, Asha workers may see wage hikesA senior government official told ET on the condition of anonymity that the new index with a revised base year and basket is likely to be l...
20 Jul, 2021, 07.23 AM IST
Pay for mid-day meal workers hiked to Rs 2,000 in JharkhandUnder the central scheme, kitchen assistants get Rs 1,000 per month for 10 months a year, of which 60 per cent is given by the Centre and 4...
17 Feb, 2021, 12.35 PM IST
Plan afoot to serve breakfast along with mid-day mealThe idea is to present this before the Cabinet ahead of the Budget session, so that it can be implemented from this academic session. This ...
07 Jan, 2021, 08.29 AM IST
National Education Policy 2020: Breakfast for school children besides mid-day meals"Children are unable to learn optimally when they are undernourished or unwell. Hence, the nutrition and health (including mental health) o...
02 Aug, 2020, 11.00 AM IST
Unorganised sector workers to be brought under social security scheme: Bandaru DattatreyaClaiming that the country's 93 per cent workforce is in the unorganised sector, Dattatreya said the benefits under the ESIC scheme will be ...
04 May, 2017, 10.09 PM IST
ESIC, EPFO benefits to be extended to Anganwadi, ASHA workers: Bandaru DattatreyaFormal sector workers would soon be eligible for up to Rs 20 lakh tax-free gratuity as central trade unions have agreed on the proposal.
07 Mar, 2017, 07.03 PM IST
Mid-day meal scheme: Aadhaar mandatory for cooks, studentsThe Department of School Education and Literacy, under the Human Resource Development ministry, has decided to give a window till June 30 t...
04 Mar, 2017, 12.23 PM IST
Volunteers of government's flagship schemes to get social securityThe move that will make them eligible for provident fund to begin with and eventually entitle them to health insurance and medical benefits...
17 Dec, 2016, 12.46 AM IST
Bengaluru civic workers to get Akshaya Patra meals from NovemberThe workers will get rice and sambar four days in a week. On the other three days, they will get bisibele bath, palau and rice bath.
14 Oct, 2016, 05.39 PM IST
20,000 civic staff set to get midday meal in BengaluruAkshaya Patra, an NGO run by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), has agreed to supply meals for municipal workers.
05 Jul, 2016, 10.35 AM IST
Trade unions to go on strike on September 2 against Centre's policyAlleging NDA government of having "anti-worker" policies, trade union across the spectrum have joined hands to go on a day-long strike on S...
12 Jul, 2015, 10.46 PM IST
- Rajasthan mid-day meal workers demand hike in remuneration
As per the 45th ILC it was recommended that the mid-day meal workers would be considered as work labourer and should be given social securi...
21 Nov, 2014, 06.08 PM IST
Plight of midday workers raised in Rajya SabhaRaising issue during Zero Hour, Tapan Kumar Sen said about 10,000 midday workers were holding demonstrations in support of their demands.
05 Aug, 2014, 04.12 PM IST
Mid-day meal tragedy: RJD demands lodging of murder caseRJD organised protest in Saran and other parts of Bihar and demanded CBI probe and registration of murder case against CM and Education min...
20 Jul, 2013, 06.45 PM IST