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Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers staged a objection successful beforehand of the Zilla Panchayat bureau successful Mysuru connected Thursday, demanding the contiguous merchandise of their honorarium that has been pending for the past 3 months.
The protestation was organised nether the banner of the Mysuru territory committee of the Karnataka State ASHA Workers’ Association. The demonstrators said astir 1,800 ASHA workers are supporting healthcare services crossed Mysuru district, but nary factual steps person been taken to wide their long-pending dues.
The hold successful releasing the honorarium has severely affected their livelihoods, arsenic galore of them beryllium wholly connected these payments to conscionable their regular expenses, the protesters said. They demanded that the pending dues beryllium released astatine the earliest and paid successful a azygous instalment.
The ASHA workers urged the authorities to guarantee the timely disbursal of honorarium successful the aboriginal to debar hardship to frontline healthcare workers.
