Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 27: The State-wide pen down strike of employees of NHM, RNTCP, NACO and other schemes in support of regularization of their services entered 8th day, today.
Hundreds of employees of National Health Mission (NHM), J&K State AIDS Control Society (JKSACS) and Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), demanding regularization of their services, assembled near Press Club Jammu.
The protesting employees raised slogans against the false promises made by the Government for framing a job policy for the employees of these organizations and raised slogans against Minister for Health and Medical Education, Bali Bhagat.
The presidents of all the three organizations viz Rohit Seth (NHM), Nissar Ahmad Dar (JKSACS) and Dr SS Samyal (RNTCP) informed the media that Government of J&K is not paying any heed to their genuine demands and forcing them to take aggressive measures to project their demands, which will be not beneficial for anyone, especially the needy and poor patients.
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Similarly, a protest was also organized at Press Enclave, Srinagar, by Joint Employees Coordination Committee of NHM, RNTCP, NACO and other schemes. While speaking on the occasion, spokesperson of the JECC, Abdul Rauoof, condemned the brutal use of force on the employees protesting peacefully in Jammu.
He said that such kind of brutal acts from Government will not detonate their struggle but will make them stronger and they will fight till their demands are not met. “Protest is a democratic right of every citizen of this country and when Government fails to handle the situation they use such force to stop the protest, but at the same time this shows the true character the Government towards their citizens, employees who work for them day and night”, he added.
Abdul Rauoof said, “The statements given by Bali Bhagat, Minister for Health & Medical Education and Asiya Naqash, Minister of State for Health & Medical Education, are contradictory to each other as none of them clarified about the status of regularization of the employees working under NHM, RNTCP, NACO and other schemes.”
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