Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, May 26: Asha workers of district Rajouri held strong protest demonstration at district headquarters, here demanding release of their pending wages of two months.
These hapless workers, who are facing starvation, were protesting outside the office of Chief Medical Officer, Rajouri for the last two days but have remained unheard by the District Administration and the concerned senior Health Department officials including CMO and DyCMO, they alleged.
About 80 Asha workers from various tehsils and blocks of district Rajouri assembled outside the office of CMO Rajouri in the morning again today and held protest demonstration, followed by dharna. Vanita Sharma and Asha Kumari were leading the agitration. They said that Asha workers are paid a meager amount of Rs 1800 per month but the same has been denied to them for the last two months. They said Asha workers were working tirelessly during Covid Pandemic, assisting vaccination, survey teams and also conducting other duties assigned to them but they are not being paid their wages despite repeated requests to the concerned BMOs and CMO Rajouri.They also demanded enhancement of their remuneration from Rs 1800 to Rs 5000 per month.
Asha workers have further alleged that such treatment of the UT Administration has shattered their confidence and put them under depression as their families are forced to face starvation. They alleged that CMO and even the DyCMO did not bother to listen to them and visit the dharna site. They sought intervention of Commissioner/ Secretary Health and Medical Education, the Chief Secretary and Lt Governor into the matter.
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