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Senior Congress person Sonia Gandhi connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) raised the contented of distress faced by women frontline workers successful the Rajya Sabha, seeking doubling of the Centre's publication to their wage and filling of astir 3 lakh vacancies successful the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) .
Raising the contented during Zero Hour, the erstwhile Congress president said, “ASHA workers, anganwadi workers and helpers, and assemblage assets persons nether the National Rural Livelihood Mission stay overburdened and underpaid contempt their captious publication to nationalist work delivery.
"Across the country, ASHA workers undertake immunisation, mobilisation, maternal health, and household welfare. Yet, they stay volunteers with debased honorarium and constricted societal security," she said.
Ms. Gandhi said,“ Anganwadi workers are paid a meagre basal honorarium of ₹4,500 and ₹2,250 per period by the Central government.
She pointed retired that determination are astir 3 lakh vacancies successful the (ICDS) astatine assorted levels, leaving lakhs of children and mothers without indispensable services. "Even erstwhile filled, these posts autumn abbreviated of colonisation norms owed to the deficiency of updated Census figures since 2011," the Rajya Sabha MP said.
The elder Congress person urged the authorities to enactment intimately with States to capable each existing vacancies, guarantee timely remuneration to each workers and treble the Centre's publication to the wage of these frontline workers.
She besides sought the assignment of an further ASHA idiosyncratic successful villages with a colonisation greater than 2,500 and doubling the fig of anganwadi workers to alteration aboriginal puerility acquisition successful summation to existing nutrition and wellness initiatives. "I privation to emphasise that strengthening, expanding and supporting this workforce is an concern successful India's future," Ms. Gandhi said.
