ASHA Workers Cannot Be Disqualified From Panchayat Posts Merely For Receiving Incentives: HP High Court Stays Govt Clarification

The Himachal Pradesh High Court stayed a State Government clarification that treated ASHA workers as part-time employees and consequently disqualified them from being elected as office bearers of Panchayats under Section 122(1)(g) of the Himachal Pradesh Panchayati Raj Act, 1994.A Division Bench of Justice Vivek Singh Thakur and Justice Ranjan Sharma remarked that: “a prima facie case is...