Mysuru: Seeking fulfilment of their long-pending demands, ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers from across Mysuru district launched a three-day protest at Gandhi Square in the heart of the city this morning. The strike, called by the Karnataka State Samyukta ASHA Workers Association affiliated with the AIUTUC (All India United Trade Union Centre), is being…
Asha workers to stage overnight dharna from tomorrow
August 11, 2025Karnataka Rajya Samyukta ASHA Karyakartheyara Sangha will be staging an overnight dharna at all district headquarters from Aug. 12 to 14, said AITUC District Secretary Chandrashekar Methi. Addressing presspersons at Pathrakartara Bhavan here, he said that the dharna in Mysuru will be staged in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue at the Gandhi Square against the…
ASHA workers stage protest demanding hike in honorarium
January 1, 2025Mysuru: Seeking a hike in monthly honorarium and fulfilment of their other demands, ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers under the banner of AIUTUC affiliated ‘Karnataka Rajya Samyukta ASHA Workers Association’ staged a demonstration near the Deputy Commissioner’s Office on Bannur Road, Siddarthanagar here yesterday. Maintaining that ASHA workers, who are community health workers, were…
‘Provide all facilities to ASHA workers’
August 14, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Charging the Government of exploiting ASHA workers by not paying them appropriately for their work, social activist Savitha Pa.Mallesh urged the Government to give all constitutionally mandated facilities to them. She was speaking after inaugurating the district-level convention of ASHA workers, jointly organised under the aegis of Karnataka Rajya Samyukta ASHA Workers Association and…
Consider ASHA workers as Government employees: AIUTUC Secretary
August 4, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Secretary of All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC) M. Umadevi, has demanded to consider ASHA workers as Government employees and provide due facilities to them. She was addressing a gathering of ASHA workers, after inaugurating the maiden conference of ASHA workers of the city, organised jointly by Karnataka Combined ASHA Workers Association, Mysuru…
ASHA worker takes injured retired teacher to hospital, gets him treatment
November 29, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Shobha, an ASHA worker at Kumbarakoppal Primary Health Centre (PHC), has won the appreciation of the locals for her humanitarian gesture after she, despite her work pressure, chose to shift a retired school teacher to a hospital and ensured timely medical treatment. The retired teacher had fractured a bone in his leg due to…
ASHA workers protest assault on colleague
June 22, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Strongly condemning the assault on a colleague during a survey in H.D. Kote taluk, hundreds of ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers, under the joint banner of Rajya Samyukta ASHA Karyakarteyara Sangha and AITUC (All India Trade Union Centre), staged a protest in front of the office of the District Health Officer (DHO) in…
ASHA workers want more monthly honorarium, other facilities
December 29, 2022Mysuru: Demanding the scrapping of payment through Reproductive Child Health (RCH) portal, increase in honorarium and implementation of their other demands, ASHA workers staged a mammoth protest recently. Hundreds of workers of Karnataka Combined ASHA Workers Association, who arrived from various parts of the district, assembled in front of Deputy Commissioner’s Office and urged for…
ASHA workers to stage protest in Bengaluru on May 17
May 13, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Seeking fulfillment of their various demands, ASHA workers, under the banner of AIUTUC affiliated Karnataka State Samyukta ASHA Workers Association, will stage a demonstration at Bengaluru’s Freedom Park on May 17. Announcing this at a press meet here yesterday, AIUTUC State leader M. Umadevi said that the demands include equal pay for equal work,…
KR Constituency to soon have ‘Namma Clinics’
March 14, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: KR MLA S.A. Ramdas asserted that ‘Namma Clinics’ will come up across the Constituency soon, as announced in this year’s State Budget. He was speaking at ‘Central and State Budget debate and ASHA workers felicitation programme’ organised at his office in Vidyaranyapuram here on Sunday. Underlining the role of ASHA workers in serving the society…















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