Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda virtually inaugurated the campaign. Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak, Minister of State for Health Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh, Additional Chief Secretary for Health Amit Ghosh, NHM Mission Director Dr. Pinky Jowel, and district magistrates from 21 districts joined the event from Lucknow.
Presenting the second Pinarayi Vijayan-led government’s sixth budget in the Assembly, Balagopal announced the 12th Pay Revision Commission, continuing the long-standing policy of reviewing government employees’ salaries every five years.
Roads were blocked, vehicular movement slowed to a crawl and police detained several protesters amid heightened tension.
On the second day of the two-day Uttar Pradesh AI and Health Innovation Conference on Tuesday, experts deliberated on the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in strengthening the healthcare sector.
The training was held at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi, during the 31st Annual Conference of the National Association for Reproductive and Child Health of India (NARCHI), organised in collaboration with the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology from August 8 to 10.
Miss Banerjee has assured that the civic volunteers of West Bengal Police will get a bonus worth Rs 5300 like their counterparts in Kolkata Police. Also, the ASHA workers will get a puja bonus worth Rs 5300.
Ease of Doing Business (EODB), an advanced portal for social and administrative services dedicated to reforms programme, joined hands with ELSEVIER to further empower the Anganwadi (ASHA) workers in India.
ASHA workers, considered volunteers and thus beyond the pale of minimum wage restrictions, are sometimes paid as little as Rs 4,000 a month, and that too not on time.
The Darjeeling MP also prayed for the early recovery of one such frontline Covid warrior, a 35-year-old ASHA worker from Tamsong Tea Estate, who has been tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
The Chief Minister said that the ASHA workers also played an important role in sensitizing the people in home quarantine to strictly follow the norms so as to ensure that they and their family members remain safe.
