As part of the government’s National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), a new group of baseline health workers called Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA workers) was formed in 2005 to address health related demands of the rural population, especially women and children, who find it arduous to access basic health services.

The government guidelines laid down several responsibilities of ASHA workers which include creating awareness about health and its social determinants, mobilising the community towards local health planning, and increased utilisation and accountability of existing health services. This 2005 design recruited women as volunteers on honorariums to engage in tasks central to the functioning of the public health infrastructure, and promote good health practices.

Their role became even more critical in the Covid-19 pandemic era as they have been deployed to undertake additional work, like conducting door to door tests, monitoring the migrant workers, ensuring the adherence to Covid-19 protocols, as well as collecting data and reporting to the primary health centres across various states.

But the workload of ASHA workers is not directly proportional to the remuneration they receive, and they continue to be seen merely as volunteer service providers. The enormity of injustice does not end here, as they don’t fall under the ambit of the Minimum Wage Act, and don’t enjoy the maternity benefits and other schemes offered to regular government employees.
 

Meagre wage

In a written answer provided by Bharati Pravin Pawar, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, on July 23 this year to the Lok Sabha, it was revealed that ASHA workers receive a fixed monthly incentive of Rs. 2,000 for undertaking routine and recurring activities. Further to incentivise Covid-19 duty, the government decided to add an additional Rs. 1,000 per month under India’s Covid-19 Health System Preparedness and Emergency Response Package.

Different states have different incentives for ASHA workers, but there have been several strikes since the onset of the pandemic demanding sufficient and timely remuneration. For instance, Uttar Pradesh sanctioned Rs. 750 per month from the state budget and the average ASHA payment in the State is Rs. 4,270 per month. CJP’s interaction with hundreds of these women across the state reveals backlogs in payment of wages and often, withholding of payment, too. Bihar provides Rs. 1,000 per month apart from the fixed price fixed by the centre, so ASHAs in Bihar get Rs. 3,000 per month, Himachal Pradesh ASHAs get Rs. 2,000 per month, Uttarakhand ASHAs get Rs. 5,000 per annum and Rs. 1,000 per month.

Besides the range of monetary incentives to the ASHAs, on June 25, 2020, thousands of ASHA workers united, at the call of the All India Coordination Committee of ASHA Workers (CITU), and held a protest at various states, including Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Assam, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala for regularisation as government workers, for adequate Covid kits (gloves, masks, sanitisers), additional incentive of Rs.25,000 per month for all contract and scheme workers, Rs. 50 lakhs insurance cover to all frontline workers, etc.

The same answer provided to the Lok Sabha in July this year also revealed that out of 10,47,324 ASHAs, a total of 109 have died due to Covid-19 till April of this year, across the nation, but the numbers could be arguably higher.

Going by the government records, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Puducherry, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Lakshadweep, Andamans, Arunachal Pradesh, Dadar and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu and Assam have not recorded a single death of the health activists.  
 

Covid-19 duty risks

In May this year, lakhs of Accredited Social Health Activists across the country reportedly protested and demanded their pending payments and protective gears like PPE kits and masks for themselves. The workers who have efficiently assisted the government in controlling the spread of the virus have raised their voices against inadequate facilities. Some workers have complained that they hadn’t been provided uniforms for the last three years and they are expected to travel door to door to check on home isolated patients but have not been provided for transport, food or water while attending duties and most were yet to be tested for Covid-19. 

According to a NewsClick report, in Karnataka, D. Nagalakshmi, state secretary of the All-India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC) backed ASHA Workers’ Union said that the 42,000 workers have been waiting for their “honorarium” – Rs 4,000 – for the past two months.

Justice from the Courts?

The Bombay High Court was one of the first courts to recognise the importance of ASHA workers especially in the fight to combat Covid-19 and had directed the government to pay Rs. 200 per day instead of the fixed Rs. 1,000 per month. The application was filed on behalf of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation Employees Union in Subhash Jainarayan Zanwar Vs. Union of India and others, PIL No.10 of 2020), wherein they brought to the notice of the court the pathetic condition of the Accredited Social Health Activists.

They complained that appropriate remuneration was not being paid to the ASHA workers and the basic equipment for protection/security were not provided and further, even refreshments and tea, as also water from time to time, was not available to them. The insensitive Nagpur Municipal Corporation had gone a step ahead and filed an affidavit in the matter stating that there was no legal provision to provide food and refreshments to the ASHAs!

Justice Manish Pitale had said, “This Court finds that the ASHA workers, who are at the forefront of the war against COVID-19 and who are performing special duties, including door to door survey of houses during such crisis, are being treated in a most unfortunate manner by the Corporation. Even if the amounts of 1000/- per month and 1500/- ₹ 1000/- per month and that ₹ 1000/- per month and that per month i.e. total of 2500/- per month is being paid to ₹ 1000/- per month and that the ASHA workers, it is hardly sufficient for survival of such workers… It is distressing that those at the forefront of the war against COVID-19 are meted out with such treatment by the public authorities including the Corporation.”
 

How far have our courts helped?

Negligent efforts have been taken by the judiciary and the government to recognise the status of ASHAs as workers under the Industrial Act to avail the benefits of the Minimum Wages Act. The Minimum Wage Act that prescribes a minimum amount must be paid to an employee by the employer, as mentioned above, does not apply to ASHA or Anganwadi workers.

A big blow to Anganwadi workers was in 2006, when the Supreme Court Bench of Justices SB Sinha and Markandey Katju had held that Anganwadi workers engaged under the Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) Programme are not entitled to minimum wages as the Minimum Wages Act is applicable only to ‘workmen’ in the industries. The Bench said the ICDS programme would not constitute an “industry” within the meaning of the Act and Anganwadi workers were not industrial workmen. (State Of Karnataka & Ors vs Ameerbi & Ors, Appeal Civ. No. 4953-4957 of 1998). 

However, in State of Punjab and Others versus Jagjit Singh, Civ. Appeal No. 203 of 2013, the Supreme Court offered some relief for scheme workers where it ruled that all types of temporary workers and daily wagers are entitled to wage parity with the regular workers provided, if they perform similar work. Another important aspect of this judgment was that it had opined that a mere difference in nomenclature should not deprive an employee from being paid a similar wage that a permanent employee gets for the “same amount of work”.

Calling it “exploitative enslavement”, the court had said, “it is fallacious to determine artificial parameters to deny fruits of labour. An employee engaged for the same work, cannot be paid less than another, who performs the same duties and responsibilities. Certainly not, in a welfare state. Such an action besides being demeaning, strikes at the very foundation of human dignity. Any one, who is compelled to work at a lesser wage, does not do so voluntarily. He does so, to provide food and shelter to his family, at the cost of his self-respect and dignity, at the cost of his self-worth, and at the cost of his integrity. For he knows that his dependents would suffer immensely, if he does not accept the lesser wage.” 

Almost 5 years after this judgment, ASHA workers continue to fight for their identity, demanding for a permanent worker status and surely, the pandemic has exacerbated their needs. The 45th session of the Indian Labour Conference (ILC), had also recommended that all scheme workers should be recognised as ‘workers’ and not as ‘volunteers’ or ‘honorary workers’. It was also suggested that the Anganwadi workers and ASHAs be covered under life and health insurance and all necessary amenities should be extended to the women. But the action taken report presented by the government at the 46th meeting of the Standing Labour Committee rejected each and every one of these demands except the demand for insurance scheme coverage.  

In Oxfam’s Commitment to Reducing Inequality Report 2020, India ranked 154 in health spending, (fifth from the bottom). This infrastructurally reflects on the lack of enough amenities for the health workers that have been fighting tooth and nail to contain the pandemic. Despite being hailed as frontline workers and Covid-19 warriors, essential ASHA workers continue to work under unfortunate conditions.

According to ThePrint, a survey was conducted by Oxfam India and its partner organisation in Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar and Chhattisgarh, interviewing a total of 306 ASHA workers. The startling facts that emerged were that just 23 percent workers had received hazmat or bodysuits. 64 percent of them claimed to have received no incentives for the Covid-related responsibilities undertaken by them. Only 43 percent ASHAs had received their monthly honorariums on a regular basis, as of September last year.

Central government’s Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana that was meant to provide an insurance cover of Rs. 50 lakh per person to frontline healthcare workers, sanitation staff, paramedics and nurses, ASHA workers and doctors was known to only 38 percent ASHA workers across the 4 states.

Besides verbal applause and showering petals over hospitals through helicopters to motivate healthcare workers, the government should start with recognising the ASHA workers who have proved to be more than just volunteers, and to not look for interim measures to shore up the crumbling public healthcare system. Subsequently, inhumane working conditions, inadequate staffing, low compensation, unacceptable working, lack of basic amenities should be next on the agenda!

As India begins to recover from 15 months of a social and political crisis unleashed by mis-governance over the handling of the health emergency, will Indians learn lessons and join hands to campaign for better wage security and health conditions for our ASHA workers?
 

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There can be no greater culinary tragedy than the denial of eggs in Madhya Pradesh. For years, the majority of people in Madhya Pradesh have opposed the consumption of eggs due to its largely vegetarian cuisine. The irony is in the fact that Madhya Pradesh, one of the most malnourished States in India denies the intake of this prime source of protein.

Eggs contain all 22 amino acids, providing around 70 calories and 7gs of protein. The Recommended Dietary Allowance report of 2019 by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) stated that children between the ages of one to three years require 16.7gs of protein. Thus, simply two eggs per meal could greatly improve a child’s health.

As per the National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4) of 2015-16, 42 percent children in the State are stunted, nearly 26 percent are wasted, 9 percent are severely wasted and nearly 43 percent are underweight. Moreover, 69 percent of children between 6-59 months are anaemic.

All of these figures would reduce drastically if the State government would accept Women and Child Welfare Minister Imarti Devi’s proposal of including eggs in anganwadi meals. However, the proposal has met with constant opposition ever since its introduction in 2009. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has gone as far as to say that the inclusion of eggs in anganwadi meals would never become a reality as long as he remained in power.

To understand the legitimacy of such a dramatic statement, one only needs to talk to one of the vegetarians in Madhya Pradesh.

“Eating eggs is a matter of dharma [religious conduct.] It is different from following rituals. How can we allow it?” said co-President of the Jain Social Group (JSG) in Ratlam Lalit Kanthed.

Kanthed said that he does not mind other people eating eggs. However, the inclusion of eggs in anganwadis would be too drastic because even Hindu children visit these places. He said parents who follow vegetarian diet would be scared to send their children to anganwadis on the off-chance that they ate the food item. Kanthed also made the argument that there were many other nutritious alternatives to eggs.

When asked about rumours that said egg consumption resulted in cannibalism, he rubbished the idea but insisted that eggs should not be a part of meals.

On the other hand, Dr. Preeti Shukla has long been a staunch advocate for high-protein food such as eggs. Over the years, she infrequently visited different anganwadis to raise awareness about nutrition and diet. In 2006, she conducted a survey for her doctorate wherein a group of young anganwadi girls consumed a high-protein diet that included eggs. She noted that their health drastically improved over the following six months.

Shukla said that eggs are a complete meal with high biological value proteins. Therefore, it is a good supplement for underprivileged children. However, even she could not fight against the dissent of the vegetarian community. She acknowledged that the majority of people in the State were vegetarian and thus opposed the introduction of eggs in meals. In the same vein, she also stated that most people who came to anganwadis were Maharashtrians or non-vegetarians who did not mind eating eggs. For these people she said that eggs should be allowed as a rich source of protein. She said that providing these 0-5 year children with an egg diet could address their protein requirement to a large extent.

Similarly, for vegetarians, she argued that meals could include alternatives such as ladoos made from peanuts or other nuts. Even so, eggs seem to be a cut above its vegetarian alternatives because the shelled-commodities are hardly ever contaminated. Among vegetarian alternatives, paneer (cottage cheese) can compete with eggs in terms of nutrition but there are chances of contamination with such proteins.

In ‘Community Traditional Food Resource Mapping Study’ by an NGO called Vikas Samvad, it was discovered that 99 percent of the Madhya Pradesh OBC tribes surveyed liked the consumption of non-vegetarian food. Moreover, eggs were consumed more than any meat product. Pregnant women consumed five to seven eggs per month, lactating mothers ate nine eggs per month while adolescent children 10 eggs per month. The data indicated that eggs, although not a part of the majority population’s diet, are still an important part of the State’s cuisine.

According to Market.TodayPriceRates, the product is also sold at an affordable rate of Rs. 5 per egg as of September 15. This makes it cheaper than milk, pulses or any other vegetarian alternative.

Yet the social constraints keep this food group from becoming a part of mainstream diet. There was hope for its normalisation in April 2020. However, once the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power, the question of nutrition has once again become politicised.

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The Committee on Local Bodies and Panchayat Raj for Karnataka tabled its report for 2019 – 20 in both the Houses has expressed concern about the infrastructure in anganwadis, while also mentioning the health risks due to the lack of toilets and ventilation, reported Deccan Herald.

The report stated that while the government was to build 3,026 new toilets in anganwadis across Karnatakas, only 1,663 toilets had been constructed at the time of compiling the report. Also, while 5,011 anganwadis were lined up for repair work, the repairs of only 2,965 had been completed.

It was also mentioned that while the construction of some anganwadis had not begun at all, in several other villages the walls were leaking due to being of poor quality. It was said that the funds for the infrastructure development of anganwadis had been diverted to civil works instead.

In Bagalkot, the toilet construction target was 238, but only 11 new toilets were made. In Ramnagar, no toilets were constructed against the given target of 121 and the same was with Raichur which had a target of 76 toilets to be constructed.

Speaking to Deccan Herald, S Varalakshmi, President of the Karnataka State Anganwadi Workers Association, CITU, said that the infrastructure had suffered due to a scarcity of funds. “Till 2018, the government granted only Rs. 1.80 lakh for infrastructure development per anganwadi. Recently the amount has been increased to Rs. 5 lakhs, as against our demand of Rs. 15 lakh taking present day costs into consideration.”

She also added that in several regions where toilets were made, especially in the Kalyana Karnataka region, there was no water.

“Anganwadi workers fetch water from afar. It is a serious issue. Also, the problem of dingy spaces persists in urban areas where space is a constraint. Here, many anganwadis also run from rented buildings. In such spaces, toilets are not available in the same building. In many instances, the government has not even paid rents and anganwadi workers are paying it from their pockets,” she said.

Meanwhile, it has been reported that 1,206 anganwadi centres in Dakshina Kannada do not have compound walls to prevent encroachers from taking upon the land. This puts the children at risk and the workers of the centre have to work hard to save the food-bearing plants and vegetables that grow in the premises and are consumed by the children there.

While some anganwadi centers across the country will have CCTV cameras set up soon, others are still grappling with problems related to basic amenities like no toilets and no take home ration.

Another issue that anganwadi workers and helpers face is of wages. These front-line workers, mostly women, are an invaluable link between the people and the government. However, till date, they haven’t received the due that they deserve for their work.

Sabrang India had reported the plight of these workers earlier. The Anganwadi workers have been battling for a minimum wage of Rs. 18,000 per month, garnering support from the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and other outfits affiliated to the Communist Party of India (CPI – M). They complain that the salaries promised to them don’t come on time and sometimes they have to go months without getting their pay. At such times, they selflessly contribute from their own pockets – for charts, toys and other items, for they love the job they do. Not just this, they also prepare food and ensure the kids get a variety in their diet.

Till date, their dues are never mentioned as salaries, but are called honorariums. Their nature of work is never seen as hard labour and they are never looked at as employees, but as someone engaged in voluntary social service.

Regularization of anganwadi workers is still on the cards. The wage increase made in 2018 hasn’t been implemented efficiently yet.

It is rather disappointing to see the government’s apathy with regards to the anganwadi centers and the children and the employees there. With bureaucracy being so convoluted, it is difficult to say if the state of one of the most important pillars of the child development services will ever achieve their full potential, benefiting crores.

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Maharashtra has 97,287 anganwadis where 2,06,000 anganwadi workers and helpers are appointed on contractual basis. There are 53.4 lakh children aged less than six in these anganwadis.

Their last increment was in 2014 when anganwadi workers got Rs 950 and helpers got a Rs 500 increment per month. 

Along with children, such women are also bearing the brunt of the strike and the delay in the government’s decision to broker an agreement with protesting anganwadi workers.
 
In Nagpur, 500 anganwadi workers were detained by police for protestingon Saturday. Shamim said that the committee has started statewide protests to locally raise its demands.
 
In Amravati, Bandu Sane, attached with NGO Khoj, said, “If this was a strike of farmers, the government response would have been faster. Funding to the social sector has always been poor. Malnourished children and poor anganwadi workers get little political support.”
 
Amravati has 19,404 moderately and 3,448 severely underweight children. During monsoons, these malnourished children are prone to higher infections and deaths.In Nandurbar, Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Latika Rajput says that women who are beneficiaries under Amrut Aahar Yojana have to now consume home-cooked meals. Under the programme, they were entitled to receive eggs and two meals a day. “They eat less as the entire family shares the meal. The additional meal they got from the anganwadi has been cut short,” Rajput said, adding that the anganwadi strike has impacted tribal areas the most. “Several women and children entirely depend on free meals provided by anganwadis.”

The highest burden is in Palghar, where 43,732 children are moderately and severely underweight, followed by Nandurbar where 38,161 children are underweight. Under the Women and Child Development (WCD) department, a malnourished child is treated in a village child development centre (VCDC) in tribal districts where they get up to six meals a day for 30 days so they can come out of malnourishment parameters.

In Palghar’s Jawhar block, known for high malnutrition cases, two and-a-half-year-old twins Yadan and Ezar Jadhav are both moderately malnourished. Their father Tukaram Jadhav is a migratory labourer who grows rice on a small plot he owns. With anganwadis shut since last week due to an indefinite strike by their workers, the family makes do with the little they produce through rice cultivation.
 
“The children used to come for eggs and khichdi twice a day. The family is now making do with whatever rice they produce to fill the children’s stomach. What can we do? The twins may further slip into severe malnourishment,” says Shivaji Gode, whose wife Lata runs an anganwadi and is currently on strike in Palghar. The Times of India reports that the Kaikadi tribe, is worst affected because they depend on free anganwadi meals during monsoons when they shift to native villages. 

“The state government has fixed a meeting on Monday to discuss the hike in our honorarium. The strike will continue until our demands are met,” said Shubha Shamim, secretary of Maharashtra State Anganwadi Workers’ Action Committee. Their major demand is to increase honorarium from Rs 5,000 to at least Rs 10,500.

The last increment was in 2014 when anganwadi workers got Rs 950 and helpers got a Rs 500 increment per month. Over 5 lakh pregnant women and lactating mothers are beneficiaries under the BJP’s flagship programme Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Amrut Aahar Yojana, which started in 2015 to provide free supplementary food for better nutrition. Along with children, such women are also bearing the brunt of the strike and the delay in the government’s decision to broker an agreement with protesting anganwadi workers.
 
In Nagpur, 500 anganwadi workers were detained by police for protestingon Saturday. Shamim said that the committee has started statewide protests to locally raise its demands.
 

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दोपहर करीब 11 बजे चारबाग स्टेशन से रैली की शुरूआत की गयी। दूर दराज के वनक्षेत्रों कैमूर उ0प्र0 जनपद सोनभद्र, मिर्जापुर, चंदोली व बिहार अधौरा, बुन्देलखण्ड मानिकपुर चित्रकूट, तराई लखीमपुर खीरी व शहरी क्षेत्रों लखनऊ, कानपुर, इलाहाबाद, बनारस, मिरजापुर, आजमगढ़ व चंदोली आदि में वनाधिकारों, ज़मीन के सवाल पर, बड़े बांधों के लिये अवैध भूमि अधिग्रहण व फर्जी मुकदमों आदि के सवाल पर अपनी अपनी जगह पर संघर्ष कर रहे समुदायों व कार्यकर्ताओं का यह समूह सरकार की मज़दूर विरोधी व जनविरोधी नीतियों, महंगाई व ग्रामीण श्रमिक वर्ग के ऊपर हो रहे सरकारी दमन के खिलाफ पूरे जोश-ओ-खरोश के साथ यह रैली चारबाग से स्टेशन मार्ग, हुसैन गंज, बर्लिंग्टन चैराहा से मुड़कर कैसर बाग होते विधानसभा मार्ग पर स्थित सभा स्थल गाॅधी प्रतिमा की ओर बढ़ रहे थे कि गाॅधी प्रतिमा के नज़दीक दारुलशफ़ा के ठीक सामने लालबाग चैक पर पुलिस ने प्रदर्शनकारियों का रास्ता बाधित कर दिया व रैली को दूसरी तरफ मोड़ने की कोशिश करने लगे। आंदोलनरत महिलाओं द्वारा इस पर विरोध करते हुए जब सभा स्थल की ओर जाने की कोशिश की तो पुलिस ने लाठी चार्ज भी कर दिया, जिससे 3 महिलायें चोटिल हो गयीं। जिससे लोगों में उत्तेजना पैदा होने की संभावना पैदा हो गई। लेकिन लोगों के जोशीले रुख को देखते हुए पुलिस को पीछे हटना पड़ा व लोगों सभा स्थल तक पहुंचने दिया।

गाॅधी प्रतिमा पर आयोजित जनसभा को अशोक चैधरी, राजेन्द्र मिश्रा, रवीन्द्र सिंह, रोमा, निबादा राणा, मातादयाल, गम्भीरा प्रसाद, सुरेन्द्र प्रसाद, रामचन्द्र राणा व राजकुमारी द्वारा जोशीले अन्दाज़ में केन्द्र सरकार व राज्य सरकार की अवैध भूमि अधिग्रहण करके बांध निर्माण, वनाधिकार कानून के असफल क्रियान्वयन, श्रमिक कानूनों के साथ छेड़-छाड़, विनाशकारी विकास योजनाओं, लगातार गरीब तबकों की कमर तोड़ती बढ़ती महंगाई जैसी जनविरोधी व मज़दूर विरोधी नीतियों के मुद्दों पर घेरते हुए खुले शब्दांे चेतावनी देते हुए सभा को सम्बोधित किया। इस सभा में ग्रामीण श्रमिक लोगों पर सरकार के दमनात्मक रवैये व महिलाओं पर हो रहे अत्याचारों के मुद्दे भी वक्ताओं द्वारा मज़बूती से उठाये गये। सभा का संचालन अमित मिश्रा ने किया।

देशव्यापी हड़ताल के समर्थन में किये गये इस विरोध प्रदर्शन में भूमि अधिकार आन्दोलन के बैनर तले अखिल भारतीय वन-जन श्रमजीवी यूनियन, जनसंघर्ष समन्वय समिति, नेशनल फेडरेशन आफ दलित लैंड राईट्स मूवमेंट, लोक हक़दारी मोर्चा, बारा पावर प्लांट, कैमूर क्षेत्र महिला मज़दूर किसान संघर्ष समिति, कम्यूनिस्ट वर्कर्स प्लेटफार्म, अखिल भारतीय जय भीम सेना, बौद्ध सेना, थारू आदिवासी महिला मज़दूर किसान मंच, पाठा दलित भू-अधिकार मंच, कैमूर मुक्ति मोर्चा-अधोरा बिहार, किसान विकास मंच, मज़दूर शक्ति संगठन, विकल्प-गोरखपुर, एकाउंटेबल सिटीजन फोरम, श्रमिक आंदोलन, जनपैरवी मंच, किसान मज़दूर एकता समिति, कन्हर बचाओ आंदोलन, इंसाफ-उत्तर प्रदेश, वीडियो वालेंटियर, एन.ए.पी.एम, ए.आई.सी.सी.टी.यू, संघर्ष संवाद, भारतीय मज़दूर यूनियन, रिहाई मंच व जनमंच-फैजाबाद के प्रतिनिधीगण व संघर्षशील वनाश्रित समुदायों की बड़ी संख्या में महिलाएं व पुरुष शामिल हुए। 

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