Hundreds of ICDS workers and helpers under the banner of Western Odisha ICDS Workers and Helpers’ Sangh held a strike with a slew of demands. They took out a rally in the town disrupting traffic and held a protest meeting in front of the collectorate. They protested the apathetic attitude of the Government towards them. The agitators gave a memorandum to Collector Dasirathi Satpathy, demanding that ICDS workers and helpers jobs be made permanent and they be given salary at par with Government employees. Besides, they demanded increment, six months’ holyday for pregnancy, pension for those who work in KBK area and supply of fire wood to school, etc.Sangh president Prasanta Padhi, working president lili Mishra, vice president Mamata Panda, Namita Satpathy, Puspanjali Da and Gitanjali Swain led.