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#Virginia has once again failed 1) #elephant🐘#Asha & 2) the issue of public safety (HB2483).

The personal ‘wants’ of a few were favored over public safety & the needs of a captive wild #animal.
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.@MichaelWebert You have said:

“Life is easy when you’re a Democrat politician because you can twist whatever legislation you want to fit your narrative.”

With all due respect, you did just that in response to HB2483. 2/
.@MichaelWebert Your remarks & those in opposition to the bill were *personal, emotional, not based in science*.

Ironically, these are words used to invalidate concerned citizens when advocating for animal welfare issues and public safety concerns. 3/
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This #WomensDay, we take a look at some stories that show how social systems often exist with glaring inequalities for women, and some cases that show how these systems can be changed Check out this thread to read about women in IITs, femtech, female athletes, and more!🧵
We published a three part series about #WomenInSTEM, that looked at their journey of making it to prestigious universities, both public and private, and the challenges they face in these institutes. Here is part 1:
thebastion.co.in/politics-and/e…
Communities & individuals most affected by #climatechange are often left out the larger conversation of participation and solutions. @_Vaishnavi_R spoke to climate activist @SorengArchana about the role that women & Dalit youth play in conservation
thebastion.co.in/politics-and/e…
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Documentary films based on Indian Artists and Indian Music...

A thread..
The life journey of #JagjitSingh who broke through the norms and revolutionised the Ghazal scenario.

#KaagazKiKashti (2017) by @brahmanandsingh.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN.

Buy/Rent :

@jabeenmerchant @MobiusFilmsIn
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The #BombayHighCourt bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni is now hearing a PIL filed by on Siddharth Chandrashekar highlighting #vaccine #fraud in the city.
Advocate Anita Shekjat for petitioner: Despite state's claims that everyone would be vaccinated citizens are being victims of fraud. Points out that the state had said it would use Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) to spread awareness.
Adv Shekjat: But #ASHA workers are on strike.
J Kulkarni to BMC: Mr Sakhare, How did this fraud happened in Hiranandani society?

Senior counsel Anil Sakhare: Police has registered a case. The probe is on. One group has done the fraud at two places.
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Attn: all women led scheme workers in India, #Asha #Anganwadi and #Midday meal workers are on a 2 day nationwide strike.

In Bihar, the scheme workers are on a 3 day strike between 6th-8th Aug.

Follow us as we get more updates, demands, photos and audios. Image
In Haryana #Asha workers are demanding:

1. 4000 as Covid pay
2. Declaration and status as health workers and permanent staff
3. Govt empanelled hospital facilities for treatment of Asha workers Image
From #Asha workers protest in Haryana.
Pic courtesy: Asha workers Union, Haryana

Image decrpition: ASHA worker holding a placard that reads ' its not for fun we strike. We strike because it is necessary" Image
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Today, 600,000 of India’s 1 million accredited social health activists (#ASHA workers) have gone on strike for 2 days to demand better and timely pay, and a legal status that ensures minimum wages. Follow this thread to know more:
In Bihar, only ~20% of #ASHA workers have been given masks & gloves for #COVID19 screening. Without proper equipment, ASHAs fear they will catch the infection, said Chunni Kumari, an ASHA from East Champaran district, in our May 2020 story indiaspend.com/why-bihars-doo…
In Nagaland, Meghalaya and Assam, experts suggested that #ASHA workers be roped in to help prevent #domesticviolence during the #lockdown and provide redress to victims, as we reported in April 2020
indiaspend.com/activists-urge…
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Sidhamallamma, ex-Panchayat leader in #TamilNadu is also an #ASHA worker passionate about health. As a child bride herself she knows the dangers of #earlymarriage + frequent pregnancies. Read how she makes a difference. behanbox.com/illiterate-mar…
An #Adivasi from the Irula tribe, she frequents #MNREGA sites to to talk to women about their health and control over their own bodies. 47.4% women in Krishnagiri dt, where her panchayat is located are anaemic and 2.2% are severely so. #WomeninPolitics #Panchayatleaders
Despite #patriarchy, caste prejudice and male dominated political networks, women leaders like Sidhamallamma have been making an enormous difference in their Panchayats ranging from water to health. #WomeninPolitics #Panchayatleaders
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#ASHA workers in Ludhiana stage a protest as Govt asks them to do smartphone surveys. Most don't have the phones nor the money to buy.

hindustantimes.com/cities/asked-t…

Punjab has not paid ASHAs for 3 months

Read our report on unpaid incentives+ honoraiums

behanbox.com/promised-mostl…
Listen to what Ranjit Kaur, an ASHA from Ropar told us here about how ASHAs are working for free in Punjab.

Earlier Haryana had asked #ASHA workers in the state to get smartphones to feed data online. ASHAs in the state protested. Hear what Sarabjit from kaithal, told us

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Assam’s Minara Begum, an #ASHA (women health workers) sold her daughter’s mobile phone & steel almirah during #Covid19. Unpaid & delayed salaries are pushing ASHAs to brink. Read part 2 of our series on ASHAs w/ @Article14live article-14.com/post/promised-…
India’s govt promised a million already overworked & underpaid women ASHAs Rs 1,000 as incentive to take on often dangerous Covid-19 work. Nearly 6 months later, even that “insulting” amount is mostly unpaid: Our 16-state survey in collab w/ @Article14live Image
ASHAs play a crucial role in containing the #CoronavirusPandemic . Yet, govt policy does not recognise the contribution of a million+ ASHAs, withholding & delaying payments, cutting corners on incentives & placing them under financial burden. Part 2 of our series. @Article14live Image
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Haryana Govt has announced additional pay incentive equal to basic pay of health care workers tackling #Covid_19--doctors, nurses, lab techs, ambulance drivers, safai karmacharis.

Missing in this directive are 20,115 ASHA who are the most frontline workers in the pandemic. Image
Haryana has fixed pay of Rs.4000 per month after a long struggle by ASHAs ( along with central govt. incentives). However, they have not been paid since January 2020. In some districts like Sonepat, not paid since October 2019.
Haryana Govt has now asked #ASHA workers to download an survey app on their android phones. ASHAs have to buy their own phones and spend their own money for internet packs. ASHAs are resisting this move.
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More #ShiiTheology commentary by a little known 9/15th century #SayyidAbdalWahhabAstarabadi on #NasiralDinTusi (d. 672/1274) pithy four chapters on divine simplicity, prophecy, the Imamate, and the afterlife published by the shrine of #ImamHusayn 1/ Image
Precious commentaries included #Tusi contemporary #MaythamalBahrani (d. 699/1300), #MiqdadalSiyuri (d. 826/1423) but the work was a mainstay of the #Hilla school of #ShiiTheology 2/
Of course the #Fusul of #Tusi is often thought to have first been penned in his #Ismaili phase in #Persian although most of the commentaries are in #Arabic following the Arabic translation of Rukn al-Din Hilli student of the famous #’Allama_Hilli 3/
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#TRIBECON begins #Pravara; felicitations to #AbhayBang @SearchGad & #sudarshan #VGKK for their inspiring work on #TribalHealth; @DrLahariya @whoindia among others felicitated
#abhayBang #healthsystem design for tribal communities need to be relooked for #UHC; strategies & schemes must adapt with local social & cultural context; recollects #Brainstorming with @DesirajuKeshav at @SearchGad leading to #ExpertCommittee #tribalhealth @TribalHealthIND
#TRIBECON #AbhayBang notes with happiness increasing interest in #tribalhealth research, yet this continues to be “off the beaten path”; congratulations to #pravara medical college in bringing this together; the proposed #Bandardhara declaration to improve #tribalhealth research
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The new Andhra government led by @ysjagan has increased the monthly salary of Accredited Social Health Activists (#ASHA) workers in the state to Rs 10,000 from Rs 3,000 as promised in his manifesto.
A thread on #ASHA workers salaries in other states:
ASHA workers- a women only cadre in India’s Community Health Workforce- are a link between the community and the government healthcare services under the National Rural Health Mission. They are assigned 43 functions with a fixed remuneration for each.
#ASHA #GenderAndLabour
ASHA workers are at the frontline of carrying out several key govt health services- immunisation, pre & post natal care, monitoring child health, and prevention of diseases like malaria & TB. Plus, they maintain copious amounts of health data.

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ruralindiaonline.org/articles/carin…
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