-GaonConnection.com For nearly a month, frontline health workers in the state are on an indefinite strike demanding a monthly pay hike, status of permanent workers and compensation for dead colleagues. More details here. Since June 1, thousands of ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers across Madhya Pradesh are on an indefinite strike demanding a hike in their Monthly honorarium and status of permanent workers. Over 60,000 of these protesting female frontline workers...
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Indefinite strike by Bihar's ASHA workers is another reminder that they are overworked, underpaid -Kavita Krishnan
-Scroll.in The ASHA unions in Bihar are demanding government employee status and a minimum wage. Accredited Social Health Activists or ASHA workers in Bihar went on an indefinite strike from December 1 with a 12-point charter of demands. Bihar has 93,687 ASHA workers – the second highest contingent of the one million ASHA workers in India. They are the key link between the healthcare system and rural populations and have to perform...
More »Uttarakhand rural protest -Piyush Srivastava
-The Telegraph. Lucknow: Around 5,500 of the nearly 8,000 panchayat chiefs in BJP-ruled Uttarakhand have resigned to protest an alleged reduction in the budget for rural development. The panchayat chiefs are also protesting the Trivendra Singh Rawat government's refusal to increase their Monthly honorarium from Rs 750 to Rs 5,000. The panchayat chiefs have been agitating for the past three days. Girveer Parmar, the state president of the Uttarakhand Gram Pradhan Sangathan, said 5,500...
More »Anganwari workers accuse Centre, Punjab of ignoring them
-The Times of India BATHINDA (Punjab): The spate of protests is not ending in Bathinda even after the model code of conduct for elections coming into force. On Friday, anganwari workers and helpers observed the International Women's Day by holding a huge protest in the town. Anganwari Mulazim Union, under the banner of Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), held a protest, in which hundreds of women from across Malwa region...
More »Pay of midday meal workers doubled to Rs 2,000 a month -Akshaya Mukul
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Acceding to a long standing demand of 28 lakh cook-cum-helpers of midday meal scheme just ahead of general elections, the finance ministry has cleared the HRD ministry's proposal to double their Monthly honorarium from Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,000. The decision will cost the government Rs 2,000 crore annually and benefit 28.29 lakh cook-cum-helpers across the country. More than 82% of cook-cum-helpers are women, 25% belong...
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