ASHA workers demand job security, retirement benefits
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The AHSA workers held a sit-in in front of the District Collector’s offices in Anantapur and Kurnool on Thursday, demanding that the government make their services permanent, apart from providing retirement benefits and improving their working conditions.
The workers gathered in large numbers at the main gate of the Collectorate in Anantapur, blocking the vehicular traffic for some time.
The police cleared one carriageway for the vehicles as more than 100 workers squatted on the road seeking solutions to their problems. Holding placards, they said the National Health Mission grants must be increased and they be given better pay scales. Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU) district general secretary E.S. Venkatesh, ASHA Workers’ Association president Naga
Ranchi: A delegation of Left parties on Friday met chief minister Hemant Soren to demand a special session of the state assembly to reject the farm laws passed by the Centre and also initiate the process for holding the panchayat elections.
The six-member delegation comprising leaders from CPI, CPM, Marxist Coordination Committee and the CPI(M-L) submitted a 14-point memorandum on various issues of the state.
The leaders also urged the state government to support the countrywide agitation staged by farmers and sought simplification of the procurement process of farm products in the state.
Notably, the memorandum contained several other demands, including steps to curb the rising crime graph in the state, free vaccination for preventing Covid-19, giving employment to dependent family members of mob lynching victims in their home districts, conduct of special drives for distribution of forest pattas, raising the minimum wage, stopping the process of privatisation of the health se