Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 29: National Health Mission (NHM) employees have urged the Lt Governor of J&K to initiate measures for their regularization forthwith.
In a statement issued today, All JK NHM Employees’ Association president and J&K media incharge of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, Rohit Seth said that around 12000 NHM employees including doctors, paramedics and management staff are working under different schemes of NHM in health department since last 14 years but so far no regularization policy has framed by the Government to secure their future.
Seth said the NHM employees have given the prime and productive period of their lives for success of the Mission while many of them have already crossed the upper age limit for recruitment in Government jobs. He urged the Lt Governor G S Murmu to intervene into the matter personally and make a draft policy of regularization so that the NHM employees may also live the life of dignity and equality.
He also highlighted other Association’s other demands which include enhancement of salary to make it as par with NHM staff of Delhi and Haryana, grant of leave benefits as per agreement arrived at and on the analogy of the states of Orissa and Tripura, and release of salary of the NHM staff for the agitation/termination period as agreed upon during negotiations.
Seth said to immediately stop unnecessarily harassment of NHM employees the Government had set up two different committees in 2017, 2018 to examine the demands of NHM employees and subsequently a draft proposal in this regard was submitted by the committee to Finance Department for further necessary action but till date the concerned department has failed in putting up the case of NHM employees.
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