Current Affairs: The Centre has launched Mobile Academy in Bundi District (Rajasthan) which offers a course via voice messaging for upgrading the medical and health skills of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA).
ASHA was brought in medical and health service stream in 2005-06 under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) with five-phased training programme.
About 58000 ASHA’s working across Rajasthan would get benefit of upgrading their medical and health skills through this Mobile Academy course.
For the registration in the Mobile Academy course, Centre has offered a toll free number (18003101704) where any ASHA can get registration for the course.
It is an eleven lessons voice messaging course with 44 questions, he said adding the course is free for the ASHAs registered in ASHA Soft, an online system which facilitates the department.
After completion of any of the eleven lessons, ASHA would be asked four questions and following answering them correctly, she would be promoted to next lesson.
For qualifying the course, ASHA, after completing all eleven lesions, must attempt 44 questions and must obtain more than 50 per cent marks to get academy course certificate.
This certificate would be issued by the Directorate, medical and health, and it would help ASHA get priority for ANM course, PHC ASHA supervisor and for other government added schemes.
