Since inception of NRHM in 2005, ASHA (known as ASHA Sahyogini in Rajasthan) has played an important and critical role in implementation of health activities under NRHM. The ASHA programme was introduced as a key component of the community process intervention and now it has emerged as the largest community health worker programme in the world and is considered a critical contribution to enabling people's participation in health.

ASHA is a community level worker whose role is to function as a health care facilitator, a service provider and to generate awareness on health issues. Besides delivering key services to maternal child health and family planning, she also renders important services under National Disease Control Programme.

ASHA`s Work Profile:

• Ensuring 4 antenatal checkups, institutional delivery and post natal checkups.
• Identifying the risk and referring the mother & child to the health institution.
• Promoting attendance of children at anganwadi on village health and nutrition day for immunization.
• Holding monthly meetings of Village Health and Sanitation Committee.
• Counselling couples for family planning and distributing contraceptives to eligible couples.
• Counselling mothers fo immunization of child at every household.
• Interface between community and health services to control diseases such as Malaria, T.B., Blindness etc.