The Haryana government launched an Android application and web portal called ‘Asha Pay’ for digital payment and performance monitoring of state’s Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs). There are 20,268 ASHA health workers working in the state. ASHAs were a major strength of the department. With the help of this app, the payment of their monthly honorarium and incentive amount would be made digital and faster.

Along with this, verification and acceptance of the performance and evaluation report of the workers would also be digital. All ASHAs would be provided with SIMs with facility of unlimited calls and 30 GB of 4G internet monthly data so that this process could be linked to geo-locations soon. The monitoring and report of the performance of ASHAs would also be done at the state headquarters. 

Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA)

• ASHA is a trained female community health activist. Selected from the community itself and accountable to it, the ASHA will be trained to work as an interface between the community and the public health system.
• The role of an ASHA is that of a community level care provider. This includes a mix of tasks: facilitating access to health care services, building awareness about health care entitlements especially amongst the poor and marginalized, promoting healthy behaviours and mobilizing for collective action for better health outcomes and meeting curative care needs as appropriate to the organization of service delivery in that area and compatible with her training and skills.