ASHA Workers
The ASHA Workers of Bihar-Saviours of Motherhood
Introduction The ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activists) workers, working under the NRHM (National Rural Health Mission), …
Introduction The ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activists) workers, working under the NRHM (National Rural Health Mission), …
In a survey conducted in Bihar among 2 lakh rural households, it was found that only 8.39 % people had some kind of toilet i…
Working on a petty honorarium, the ASHA workers have been sacrificing their precious time and energy for building a healthy …
An underdeveloped semi-feudal society considers the ASHA worker some kind of ‘low caste’ woman who is given the status of ‘C…
ASHA workers actually don’t have any stipulated hours of work. They may have to go to work in the dead of night or wee hours…
Organizing the ASHA workers first started with some NGO members who were also working in the NRHM. Some health workers took …
The ASHA workers of Bihar began to hold village-level meetings first to discuss their problems and form a consensus on issue…
Another important issue that the ASHA workers have now started raising is that the honorarium being given to them is not com…
The valley of Kashmir has been called the Switzerland of India although people who have travelled across both Europe and Kas…
The Kashmir turmoil of 1990s was an important event not just politically but socially too as it had deep repercussions in th…
The civil society has geared up to address the challenge. The Coalition has been formed in 2011 as an outcome of concerns ar…
According to NFHS-3 (2005-06), most Indian states including some high fertility north India states have reached replacement …
We see the emerging issues and challenges in what the exploratory study of Mahila Chetna Manch (MCM) in five States showed. …
· The scale of disqualifications in Panchayats where the two-child norm is applicable, is noted to be huge.
The conflating of ‘national interest’ with population control has serious negative consequences. The Two Child Norm and Poli…
Section 2 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 defines dowry as under: “In this Act, ‘dowry’ means any property or valuable secur…
Yet this does not always happen and brides are harassed, beaten up, are sometimes forced to commit suicide and even murdered…
Dowry has drastic socials consequences. Keeping in view the weakened position of women in our society , Justice Ranganath Mi…
Introduction The evil system of dowry is rooted deep in Indian society. However, it has taken a totally different form from …
Latest statistics issued by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows that Odisha reported as many as 1,487 cases under…
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