Upset with non-payment of honorarium, a 30-year-old woman ‘gram sevak' allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself in Ballia district, police said on Saturday.
Maya Pande, who worked as a gram sevak under MGNREGA in the Chitroli village under Bansdih Kotwali police station of the district, was found hanging in a room of her house in the same village on Friday, SHO Rajesh Singh said.
She was rushed to the district hospital by her family members, he said, adding the woman died there later.
The victim's family members told police that she was not getting her honorarium for the past two months.
She was also not keeping well and had asked for leave which too was not granted, the family members told police, adding these reasons drove her to take the extreme step.
The body has been sent for post mortem examination and further investigations are on, the SHO added.
