Accredited social health activists and Anganwadi workers should be given proper benefits by the Government of India to ensure overall development in the country. Examine (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
· In India, there are about a lakh ASHA workers, 1.3 million Anganwadi workers and another 1.2 million Anganwadi helpers, of them women.
· As the response to the pandemic required localised approaches, services of community workers became useful.
· They are classified as “honorary workers”, denied minimum wages, leave and other conditions that work entails.
· The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour also recommended formalising the work of community workers.
· The one positive aspect of their work is that the society recognises them as a part of the state machinery. This enables many women to negotiate patriarchal restrictions and norms of mobility.
· States need recognises the contributions of these women and accept them as workers. This could help in resolving the larger issue of devaluation of women’s work and their secondary status as workers.
· The recognition of ASHA and Anganwadi volunteers as workers, even if it is contractual, will thus not only be a tribute to their contribution during the pandemic, but also an opportunity to shake the structural understanding of women’s labour and their status in the labour market.
· Recognition of care work in the public sphere could also help in unsettling the gendered and unequal division of house work and unpaid care burden.
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