Seeking fulfilment of various demands including ‘wages commensurate to the work’, hundreds of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) took out a huge protest march in Haveri on Friday.
In the protest march taken out under the aegis of Karnataka State United ASHAs Association affiliated to AIUTUC, the workers marched from the Devagiri Road to the Deputy Commissioner’s office, where they staged a demonstration.
Addressing the protesters, State Secretary of the association D. Nagalakshmi said that as the Union government’s initiatives for various ASHA services had been linked to the RCH portal, they were not getting the wages directly and suffering financial loss from the last five years. They were also not being given incentives for various other works done by them, she alleged.
