Police detained several protesters amid heightened tension. Statesman News Service | Kolkata | January 21, 2026 7:01 pm https://www.thestatesman.com/bengal/asha-workers-protest-chokes-city-traffic-thrown-out-of-gear-1503544455.html Kolkata witnessed widespread traffic disruption on Wednesday as thousands of Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers took to the streets in a massive protest, affecting large parts of central Kolkata, Salt Lake and arterial highways in several districts. […]
Download the whole book “Every Responsibility Falls on the ASHA”It was time for the biweekly ASHA meeting at the hospital where Meena worked. Fifteen or twenty ASHAs sat on the floor, on a large carpet spread out in the hallway. We took a seat near Meena on the floor.Chairs were lined up in front of […]
https://www.epw.in/journal/insight/privatisation-and-postmodern-governance.html Posted here for comparison with ASHA demands- The workers’ demands went beyond wages; they included calls for job regularisation, protection from arbitrary wage cuts, and recognition of their contribution to the city’s public health and urban infrastructure. At the core of the agitation was the fear that privatisation would lead to significant reductions in […]
The reason for the Swasthya Bhavan drive on Tuesday, January 7, was to meet with health officials to find a solution and to demand their due rights. But the first and main demand – that the minimum wage of Rs 15,000 be paid to ASHA workers as set by the state government – remained unresolved. […]
AIUTUC aligned ASHA Workers Union in W Bengal is on strike today. They will appeal to the CM of West Bengal for improved work conditions said Secretary Ismat Ara Khatun. A continuous work stoppage has been called across the state by the West Bengal ASHA Workers’ Union to press for various demands. There are approximately […]
Raising slogans for dignified wages and work, thousands of ASHA workers took to the streets of Patna on 12 August 2025. The massive protest, organised under the banner of Bihar Rajya ASHA Karyakarta Sangh (Gope) and affiliated to AICCTU, demanded immediate steps to increase the honorarium in line with the August 2023 agreement. The 31-day […]
“ASHA workers do not need the advice of ‘middle-class’ or ‘activists’ or indeed, academics, to lecture them on how to protest or forge alliances. The protesting ASHA workers have brought down every accusation against them with logical arguments and data and articulating their needs and demands very clearly, publicly, in TV shows, throughout March and April […]
The CG story For at least two years, Mitanins, the frontline health workers of Chhattisgarh, have been campaigning to be formally absorbed into the National Health Mission (NHM). The programme was, for two decades, implemented by the State Health Resource Centre (SHRC), a state-civil society partnership organisation. Mitanins had hoped that integration into the NHM […]
Brief Note Oct 9th 2025 This is a basic fact sheet of the Kerala ASHA Health Workers Association (KAHWA) strike taking place in front of the State Secretariat, Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala since 10 Feb 2025. Current status Third round of talks with Health Min. fails to reach a conclusion Key information These are Accredited Social […]