GURUGRAM: Around 800 Accredited Social Health Activist (Asha) staff from across the district were detained through police all over their ‘prison bharo’ protest on Friday.
The staff had accrued in front of the Mini Secretariat on Friday and raised slogans in opposition to the management, after which cops took them to a temporary prison set up in Tau Devi Lal stadium. They were launched within the night. Asha staff have lengthy been difficult that they be made everlasting and paid minimal wages.
According to the protesters, the government had agreed to their calls for after a 15-day-long protest in January, however not anything has been performed to this point. All Asha staff throughout Haryana have suspended work in protest.
Mira Devi, the president of the district Asha staff union, mentioned: “We’ve been soliciting for our calls for to be fulfilled for a long time, but the authorities haven’t responded. Finally, we began some other round of protests on June nine. The district commissioner has refused to speak with us regardless of our requests and protests.”
She mentioned the government had agreed to increase their per thirty days wages from Rs 1,000 to Rs 3,000 in February. “Instead, a notification came out that most effective staff whose wages and incentives add up to over Rs 2,000 would receive an additional amount of Rs 1,000. The executive has lied and long gone back on its guarantees,” Devi mentioned.
“We were promised notebooks, smartphones and almirahs. We were also told that Asha facilitators can be introduced back. The executive hasn’t performed any of this,” mentioned Sudesh, an Asha employee from Rajeev Nagar.
The district management, on the other hand, mentioned this can be a state-level subject. When approached through TOI, district development and panchayat officer Narender Saarwan mentioned: “This is a policy subject which needs to be discussed at the state-level. The district management has no stakes in it.”
The staff had accrued in front of the Mini Secretariat on Friday and raised slogans in opposition to the management, after which cops took them to a temporary prison set up in Tau Devi Lal stadium. They were launched within the night. Asha staff have lengthy been difficult that they be made everlasting and paid minimal wages.
According to the protesters, the government had agreed to their calls for after a 15-day-long protest in January, however not anything has been performed to this point. All Asha staff throughout Haryana have suspended work in protest.
Mira Devi, the president of the district Asha staff union, mentioned: “We’ve been soliciting for our calls for to be fulfilled for a long time, but the authorities haven’t responded. Finally, we began some other round of protests on June nine. The district commissioner has refused to speak with us regardless of our requests and protests.”
She mentioned the government had agreed to increase their per thirty days wages from Rs 1,000 to Rs 3,000 in February. “Instead, a notification came out that most effective staff whose wages and incentives add up to over Rs 2,000 would receive an additional amount of Rs 1,000. The executive has lied and long gone back on its guarantees,” Devi mentioned.
“We were promised notebooks, smartphones and almirahs. We were also told that Asha facilitators can be introduced back. The executive hasn’t performed any of this,” mentioned Sudesh, an Asha employee from Rajeev Nagar.
The district management, on the other hand, mentioned this can be a state-level subject. When approached through TOI, district development and panchayat officer Narender Saarwan mentioned: “This is a policy subject which needs to be discussed at the state-level. The district management has no stakes in it.”
‘Demands not met’, Asha workers strike work
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