ASHA workers hold celebratory march in Thrissur to welcome hike in honorarium

Welcoming the ₹3,000 honorarium hike announced for ASHA workers, the Kerala Pradesh ASHA Workers Congress, affiliated to Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), held a celebratory march successful Thrissur connected Wednesday, thanking the UDF authorities for the decision.

The march, taken retired from the INTUC territory committee bureau done Swaraj Round to the Arogya Keralam office, was followed by a gathering inaugurated by INTUC territory vice-president K.N. Narayanan.

“The authorities has fixed anticipation not conscionable to ASHA workers, but to each skilled workers,” Mr. Narayanan said. He welcomed the determination to summation wages successful the precise archetypal Cabinet gathering and praised the government’s assurance to see pension benefits for retiring ASHA workers.

He besides lauded the determination to amended benefits for different sections specified arsenic anganwadi workers, cooking unit and ayas, and the determination to make a abstracted section for elder citizens, calling them progressive steps.

The meeting, presided implicit by territory president Shakunthala Sajeev.