One of the key components of the National Rural Health Mission is to provide every village in the country with a trained female community health activist ASHA or Accredited Social Health Activist. Selected from the village itself and accountable to it, the ASHA will be trained to work as an interface between the community and the public health system. Some of the key components of the ASHA are she must primarily be a woman resident of the village -- married/widowed/divorced -- preferably in the age group of 25 to 45 years; she should be a literate woman with formal education up to class eight and ASHA will be chosen through a rigorous process of selection involving various community groups, self-help groups, Anganwadi Institutions, the Block Nodal officer, District Nodal officer, the village Health Committee and the Gram Sabha.

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