ASHAs appeal to President to intervene to settle their agitation

The Kerala ASHA Health Workers’ Association (KAHWA) has appealed to President Droupadi Murmu, seeking her involution to settee their eight-month-long agitation demanding just wages.

In their missive to the President, the KAHWA said that the existent honorarium received by ASHAs, of ₹233 a day, was beneath the subsistence level and that their request to heighten this to ₹700 a time was falling connected deaf ears adjacent though this was conscionable the authoritative minimum wages successful the State.

It besides pointed retired that ASHAs, who were the front-line wellness workers, received nary benefits astatine the clip of retirement, astatine 62 years. They were seeking a one-time status payment of ₹5 lakh and pension benefits also.

The KAHWA said that the corporate consciousness of civilian nine was with the struggling ASHAs. Though they had represented their demands respective times earlier authorities, from the National Health Mission authorities to the Chief Minister of Kerala, thing was being done to amended the plight of ASHAs.

The KAHWA appealed to the President to intervene connected the behalf of the ASHAs truthful that an amicable colony to their agitation for just wages tin beryllium reached.