Asha Workers Strike

Thousands of rural health workers are on an indefinite strike across Madhya Pradesh demanding a hike in their monthly stipend and permanent employment status.

India's frontline coronavirus warriors - ASHA workers - are up in protests in Delhi and Haryana. While 20,000 ASHA workers of Haryana have been on strike since August 7, 6,000 workers in Delhi have been on strike since July 21. They have two demands - better safety gears and proper wages.

They helped eradicate polio in India and reduced the number of women dying during child birth. But the country's catastrophic coronavirus outbreak, now the third-largest in the world, has pushed its all-female army of contact-tracing health workers to breaking point.

Karnataka government's frontline Covid workers ASHA, or Accredited Social Health Activists, started a statewide protest today saying they would only return to work when their demands - Rs 12,000 fixed salary, PPE kits and state assurance to care for family's health - are met. While the strike jeopardises Karnataka's efforts to contain the spread of...

Thousands of rural health workers are on an indefinite strike across Madhya Pradesh demanding a hike in their monthly stipend and permanent employment status.

India's frontline coronavirus warriors - ASHA workers - are up in protests in Delhi and Haryana. While 20,000 ASHA workers of Haryana have been on strike since August 7, 6,000 workers in Delhi have been on strike since July 21. They have two demands - better safety gears and proper wages.

They helped eradicate polio in India and reduced the number of women dying during child birth. But the country's catastrophic coronavirus outbreak, now the third-largest in the world, has pushed its all-female army of contact-tracing health workers to breaking point.

Karnataka government's frontline Covid workers ASHA, or Accredited Social Health Activists, started a statewide protest today saying they would only return to work when their demands - Rs 12,000 fixed salary, PPE kits and state assurance to care for family's health - are met. While the strike jeopardises Karnataka's efforts to contain the spread of...