Over 50,000 anganwadi workers and helpers working in nearly 27,000 centres across Punjab have not received their honorarium for the past six months. The workers get ₹11,000 per month, of which ₹4,500 is the honorarium component. This includes ₹3,000 from the Centre and ₹1,500 from the state government. However, since April, this amount has not been credited into their accounts, union leaders alleged.

Fed up with the delay, the childcare workers staged a massive protest outside the office of the Social Security Department in Chandigarh on Wednesday.

Union members said the deputy director of the Social Security Department had sought two to three days to resolve the issue, after which they would chalk out their next course of action.

They said that if the issue is not resolved, they woul

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