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Accredited social health activists (ASHAs) is community health workers instituted by the government of India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) as part of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). The mission began in 2005.......

Protest Against the Prime Minister's Silence on Pending Payments of ASHA Workers in Bihar

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi was delivering an election speech in Madhubani, Bihar on April 24 (just two days after a terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir, when the entire nation was in mourning) and shedding crocodile tears, ASHA workers and facilitators in the state were expressing their anger on the streets of Bihar. ASHA workers in the state have been struggling for the past six months to receive their rightful remuneration.

Parliamentary Questions: Labour

CPI-ML Liberation MPs have continued to ask questions in the Parliament in the best interests of the working classes. In the ongoing Parliamentary session, a question was put to the Ministry of Labour by Com. Rajaram Singh regarding the Ayushman Bharat Scheme for Gig Workers. The question focused on census of gig workers, budgetary allocation, social security, etc. The response of the Government of India is given below. 

2024: A Year of Workers’ Assertion 

Politically, 2024 saw the BJP government face a significant setback in the national elections. At the same time, the year saw a number of workers’ struggles from various sectors, protesting the anti-worker policies of not only the BJP as prime perpetrator, but also various other oppositional governments and private establishments who share the same crony corporate capitalist mores.

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