Around 2.75 lakh contractual workers under National Health Mission in rural Uttar Pradesh continued their strike on the day 4 by conducting a Buddhi-Shuddhi yajna at the chief medical officer’s office in Meerut. The contractual workers who are protesting have demanded to regularize their jobs under fixed salaries of 10,000 per month.
Among several contractual employees, 750 of them belongs to Meerut and due to their strike, services such as vaccination, payment of beneficiaries under Janani Suraksha Yojna, communicable disease program, Tuberculosis programme, has been stopped.
Dr Bhagat Singh, Meerut district president of UP National Health Mission (contract) Karamchaari Sangh said, “We conducted a ‘Budhi-Shudhi’ yagna for the state health department officials who are unable to see our problems despite us raising the issues since 2016 We have been raising our four-pointer demand for the past two years, but all that has come our way are assurances and nothing else.”
The media – In charge of the organization, Vinod Dwiwedi has said that despite same designations people don’t get the same salaries. Outsourcing should be put to hold and the amendment should be made on this norm.
The contractual workers from National Health commission started their protest on Monday, 21st January 2019.
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