PANJIM:The Directorate of Women and ChildDevelopment (DW&C) has instructed the seven terminated Anganwadi workers to join duty at the directorate’s head office in Panjim, on a temporary basis.
“The Director DeepaliNaik has asked them to join here for few days and assured that their termination order will be revoked soon,” president of the Goa Union of Anganwadi workers (GUAW)Devyani Tamse told Herald on Tuesday.
Tamse, along with the Vice-President of GUAW Jyoti Kerkar and one of the protestors Vidya Naik, who was discharged from GMC the same day, met Chief Minister Pramod Sawant late on Monday evening to discuss the matter. The workers were promised their jobs back on the condition they sign an undertaking that they would not protest again. The document included an apology for the protest held by the workers outside the CM’s residence in December 2021- a clause they did not agree to.
“During the meeting, the CM agreed to drop the word ‘apologise’ from the undertaking he had forwarded for us to sign, and said that he would revoke the termination order and absorb the workers back into service,” Tamse said.
Minister for Women and Child Development Vishwajit Rane, PWD Minister Nilesh Cabral, Goa Forward leader Vijai Sardesai and Congress leaders Michael Lobo and Digambar Kamat were also present at the meeting, she added.
