In a State where health rights is somewhat an alien subject, some 40-odd women, mostly from the tea garden community, are acting as ambassadors of maternal health rights of the deprived population of Assam. In spite of all odds faced in the form of socio-economic exclusion, these special bunch of crusaders are spearheading the campaign against every maternal health rights violation in 16 tea gardens located in Sonitpur district of Assam. Heartening is the fact that these tea garden women have now come out of their shell and made mobile technology their most potent weapon to fight maternal mortality especially in areas where quality health care is yet to make a distinct impact. They are now armed with a SMS-based technology introduced under a project called ??ndMMNow??(End Maternal Mortality Now ) rolled out by Nazdeek and Pajhra, both NGOs, to report on maternal health violations at different level and that too within a few seconds.

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