Incentive doubled for Delhi ASHA workers
New Delhi, May 22: The Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday approved increased incentives to ASHA workers by doubling the core incentive to Rs 3,000.
The Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, also doubled incentives payable in different identified categories.
"In order to support ASHA workers during pregnancy, it has been decided to provide them maternity benefit of Rs 2,000 per month for six months during perinatal period," a statement from the Chief Minister's Office said.
"ASHA workers provide a link and help to improve health indices for around 100 lakh plus population living in vast pockets of urban slums and difficult areas, depending upon health indicator, poor sanitation, water supply, prevalent malnutrition, communicable disease burden and an adverse female sex ratio," the statement added.
There is one ASHA worker for every 2,000 population (400 households).
The ASHA workers are expected to devote at least three to four hours every day for five days a week to their activities, including home visits, attending health and nutrition days and outreach sessions.
The Cabinet also approved a Health Department proposal to increase bed capacity of a new hospital at Burari from 200 to 768 beds.
According to the information provided by the PWD, 65 per cent of the project work and 85 percent of hospital structure has been completed so far.
"The project was reviewed and it was decided that some structural adjustment is required to accommodate more beds in the new hospital, which will provide healthcare to the residents of north Delhi.
"This new hospital is a seven-storey structure. The proposal to have more beds will be achieved with a revised estimate of Rs 265.80 crore instead of Rs 200 crore earlier," the statement added.
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Kulkarni became victim of BJP conspiracy as he grew politically in North Karnataka: Shivakumar
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Bengaluru (PTI): Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar claimed on Friday that Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in a murder case, has become a victim of a BJP conspiracy because he was growing politically in the north Karnataka region.
Stating that he has faith in Kulkarni and believes he has done nothing wrong, he said the former minister will fight the case legally by filing an appeal.
A Bengaluru court on Friday sentenced Kulkarni and fifteen others to life imprisonment in the BJP leader Yogeshgouda Goudar murder case.
On Wednesday, Santhosh Gajanan Bhat, Judge of the Special Court for cases involving elected representatives, convicted Kulkarni and others under various IPC sections, including criminal conspiracy and murder.
“I respect the court. But there was a big conspiracy in this case. When the police were about to file a B-report, the CBI was given the case to harass him (Kulkarni). Vinay Kulkarni has become a victim of a BJP conspiracy as he was growing politically in north Karnataka,” Shivakumar said.
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, he said Kulkarni has several legal options.
“I have spoken to his family. He swore on God and told me that he had not done anything wrong. I still have faith in him. I feel that he has not done anything wrong. He has an opportunity to file an appeal,” he said, adding that he stands with Kulkarni’s family and supporters and believes he will get justice.
The case pertains to the killing of Goudar, a BJP zilla panchayat member, in Dharwad on June 15, 2016. Kulkarni was a minister at the time. Hired assailants allegedly attacked and hacked Goudar to death in his gym in Saptapur, Dharwad.
Following demands from Goudar’s family and others, the then-BJP government transferred the case to the CBI in 2019.
Veteran BJP leader and former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, under whose tenure the case was handed over to the CBI, told reporters in Chikkamagaluru, “I said what I needed to say when the crime happened, and what I said—that the guilty should be punished and justice should be served—has proven true.”
Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, BJP leader and MLC C T Ravi, reacting to the court order, said, “Justice delayed, but not denied.”
