The Punjab and Haryana High Court Wednesday asked the Punjab Government to consider granting interest to Anganwadi workers and helpers for the delayed release of their honorarium, observing that a welfare state must respond with “foresight” rather than automatically rejecting such a request.

The direction came from the division bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry while hearing a case initiated suo motu in the wake of newspaper reports highlighting non-payment of dues to over 50,000 Anganwadi workers in the state.

During the hearing, the state counsel informed the bench that payments for April to September 2025 — amounting to Rs 4,500 per month for Anganwadi workers and Rs 2,250 per month for helpers — had now been released. The delay, the court was told, occurred d

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