Naib, ward members seek 10K salary

| | PHULBANI | in Bhubaneswar

The members of the Naib Sarpanch and Ward Members’ Association held a rally here pressing for fulfilment of their six-point charter of demands and submitted a memorandum to the Kandhamal District Collector in this regard. The demands included hiking of their monthly payment for every meeting to Rs 1,000 instead of Rs 250, providing monthly salary of Rs 10,000, taking their opinion for developmental works in villages, taking consent of Ward Members before making the final bill of the Panchayat Samiti fund and involvement of Ward Members in choosing beneficiaries of the PMAY scheme. Among others, association president Aruna Bhoi, working president Pratap Behera, secretary Brahmanandam Digal and chief advisor Vaidya Nath Behera were present.