Tirupur MP seeks monthly salary for ASHA workers

Coimbatore: Tirupur MP K Subbarayan has written to chief minister MK Stalin seeking to provide a monthly salary of Rs 15,000 to 2,700 accredited social health activists (ASHA) working in the rural areas of the state. In the letter shot off to the chief minster on Wednesday, the MP also urged Stalin to make them permanent staff.
Subbarayan said ASHA workers were involved in medical services in the hilly and village areas. They monitor pregnant women in rural areas from the first trimester till delivery. They also monitor children till at the age of three -year-old. “ASHA workers did not get any monthly salary but Rs 2,000 to Rs 3,000 as incentive. I request the state government to make their jobs permanent and provide a monthly salary of Rs 15,000,” he said. tnn