Shimla, Oct. 31 -- The Mid-Day Meal Workers Union, affiliated with the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), staged protests across several blocks in Himachal Pradesh on Friday, demanding a full 12-month salary instead of the current 10-month pay, alongside the fulfillment of other long-pending demands. The protests were held in response to a call by the union's state committee. Demonstrations were organised in several districts, with workers submitting memorandums to the director of education, seeking resolution of their demands. In Shimla, mid-day meal workers staged a demonstration outside the directorate of education. A delegation of the union subsequently reached the directorate to meet the director of education. However, in the absence of the director, the union decided to seek a meeting in the coming days to discuss the demands of mid-day meal workers. Addressing the protesters, CITU state president Vijender Mehra said the practice of distributing the salary payable for 10 months over a period of 12 months had resulted in a reduction in the monthly payments received by workers, describing it as gross injustice....