Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 13: National Health Mission (NHM) employees today highlighted their demands.
While addressing the media persons, Rohit Seth, provincial president of All JK NHM Employees Association and senior leader of State Government Employees’ Joint Action Committee, Subash Verma, said that NHM staff is being ignored for many years by the Health Department and despite approaching to all the concerned higher officers time to time for the redressal of the genuine demands of the employees, the authority concerned has not responded.
He said that their demands are that all the employees who have completed 5 years of service be brought on permanent establishment and the rest of the staff be given equal salary at par with permanent employees in reference to the supreme court’s verdict i.e. equal pay for equal work till their regularization.
He also said that the minimum 10% increment should be given to all the NHM staff yearly, transfer policy should be framed for them and the benefit of facilities like provident fund, maternity leave, baby care leave, medical leave, earned leave, medical Insurance, life insurance, etc should also be given to them.
“Steps must be taken to ensure job security for NHM employees and the practice of taking affidavits annually from the NHM employees, which is illegal and unjustified, must be stopped at the earliest”, he said and added that whenever regularization policy is framed or equal pay equal work is implemented, the management staff must be considered for higher post equivalent to their qualification and job profile and should not be treated as clerical cadre. He also stressed for paying Rs 6000 fixed salary to all the ASHA workers.
Keeping in view the delaying tactics as adopted by the concerned authority, our association has finally decided to adopt the agitational path and the first phase of agitation is being started from December 19 by holding one day demonstration near Press Club, Jammu.
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