Kerala’s Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), who have been striking for the last 265 days demanding enhanced remuneration and retirement benefits, on Friday (October 31, 2025) decided to end their day-and-night strike in front of the Secretariat.

ASHA workers will end their strike in front of the Secretariat on Saturday, November 1, Kerala’s Formation Day, with a rally, pledging to continue their struggle to secure daily minimum wages as well as retirement benefits. The rally will be inaugurated by Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan at 11 a.m.

The frontline women health workers decided to end their strike on the streets after Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, among a slew of populist announcements made the other day, said the monthly honorarium of ASHAs would be enhanced by

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