Topic: ASHA workers

"We don't get a monthly salary, the payment is based on tasks, like a task wage. For example, When the baby is born, we visit the home and take care of both the baby and the mother for 42 days, and visit them 7 times and when 42 days are complete, we're paid a meagre amount of Rs 250," says Usha (name changed), one of the Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers from Chaukhutia in Uttarakhand.