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Introduction: A new initiative was undertaken in the Indian health care system by introducing Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers under the aegis of National Health Mission (NHM) instituted by the Ministry of Health and Family welfare, Government of India in year 2005.ASHA will be given performance based compensation/remuneration. The current study was undertaken to assess the level of job satisfaction among ASHA's workers. Material & Methods: A cross sectional study was planned in Bhojipura village. Total 48 villages ASHAs were interviewed using predesigned semi-structured questionnaire. Total of 64 ASHA were interviewed. Result: All ASHA 64 (100.0%) received their incentives through bank account. 49 (76.6%) ASHAs were experienced a long delay in receiving the incentives.Motivation factors for becoming ASHA included 61(95.3%) financial incentive, social prestige 59(92.1%) , peer pressure 45(70.3%), to improve village health facilities 40(62.5%), and to get more exposure in village 25(39.0%).Conclusion: Mostly ASHA workers had said that they are satisfied with their work but not about the incentives paid for them.They also reported that they were not paid according to their work. Keywords: Satisfaction, Village, ASHA.

AbstractWe present initial exploratory work on illuminating the long-standing question of areal versus genealogical connections in South Asia using computational data visualization tools. With respect to genealogy, we focus on the subclassification of Indo-Aryan, the most ubiquitous language family of South Asia. The intent here is methodological: we explore computational methods for visualizing large datasets of linguistic features, in our case 63 features from 200 languages representing four language families of South Asia, coming out of a digitized version of Grierson'sLinguistic Survey of India. To this dataset we apply phylogenetic software originally developed in the context of computational biology for clustering the languages and displaying the clusters in the form of networks. We further exploremultiple correspondence analysisas a way of illustrating how linguistic feature bundles correlate with extrinsically defined groupings of languages (genealogical and geographical). Finally, map visualization of combinations of linguistic features and language genealogy is suggested as an aid in distinguishing genealogical and areal features. On the whole, our results are in line with the conclusions of earlier studies: Areality and genealogy are strongly intertwined in South Asia, the traditional lower-level subclassification of Indo-Aryan is largely upheld, and there is a clearly discernible areal east–west divide cutting across language families.

The increasing globalization and centralization in the world is threatening the existence of a large number of smaller languages. In South Asia some locally dominant languages (e.g., Hindi, Urdu, Nepali) are gaining ground beside English at the expense of