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Seeking fulfillment of the assurances fixed by the State authorities connected expanding the honorarium to them, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) volition beryllium holding agitation successful beforehand of Suvarna Soudha successful Belagavi connected December 10.
D. Nagalaxmi, State caput of Karnataka Rajya Samyukta Asha Karyakarteyara Sangha, announced the projected protestation during the wide assemblage gathering of the territory portion of the relation successful Haveri connected Wednesday.
In the wide assemblage gathering held astatine Municipal Garden successful Haveri, Nagalaxmi said that from 2008-2009 onwards, the ASHAs, whose fig had present accrued to 42,000 successful the State, had been serving the radical of municipality and agrarian areas by taking the benefits of authorities schemes to their doorsteps.
“However, contempt repeated memoranda and representations, the honorarium of ₹10,000, which was promised to them aft the protestation astatine Freedom Park successful Bengaluru during January 2025, has not reached the ASHAs. Even aft 11 months, the assurance has remained connected paper,” she said.
This apart, adjacent the accrued inducement ₹1,500 by Union authorities had not been released to the wellness workers, she alleged.
Working president of the territory unit, Gangadhar Badiger, said that the ASHAs should beryllium fixed an honorarium of ₹15,000 per period including the inducement from the Union authorities and honorarium from the State government.
District President Jayasheela Bankapurmath urged the authorities to proceed the services of ASHA facilitators with suitable remuneration and the accrued honorarium from past twelvemonth should beryllium instantly released to them. Various bureau bearers of the territory portion were present.
