Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 19: Jammu Kashmir Medical Employees Federation (JKMEF) today staged a day-long dharna in the premises of Government Hospital, Gandhi Nagar, under the leadership of Federation State president, Sushil Sudan.
The protesting employees raised slogans in support of their demands, which include immediate clearance of DPC of various categories at par with employees of Medical College and Drug & Food Control Organization, filling up of vacant posts in Health and Family Welfare Department strictly as per seniority, creation of posts of District Pharmacy Officers and Block Pharmacy Officers besides Section Officers in all the CMO offices and posts of Head Assistants at Block level, enhancement of FTA in favour of Basic Health Workers from Rs 45 to Rs 1000 per month and amendment of SRO 20 pending since more than 15 years.
They also highlighted other demands like risk allowance for Health Department employees, regularization of daily rated workers, two and half day extra pay in favour of non-gazetted employees, bringing pay scale of CHOs at par with Central grades, filling up of posts of CHOs in all PHCs and permanent solution of Salary Head 2211-Family Welfare, framing of policy for regularization of employees engaged under MHM/NCD/HDF/IDSP besides enhancement of their remuneration and monetary benefits to recently regularized employees.
While addressing the dharna, Sushil Sudan and Vinod Kumar Sharma (secretary general, JKMEF) said that the Medical Employees’ Federation has been forced to start peace full struggle to get its long pending demands addressed. They threatened to intensify the struggle if no action was taken on their genuine demands.
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