Seeking regular jobs, NRHM workers climb atop Abohar tank

Our Correspondent

Abohar, November 22

Employees working under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) at the Civil Hospital continued with their protest for the second week on Monday. The agitating staff has been at loggerheads with the government over regularisation of their services.

Alleging that none of the officials concerned has come to listen to their grievances, some NRHM workers climbed atop the water tank and started raising slogans against the state government.

Sensing the gravity of the protest, officials reached the spot and tried to pacify them. After an hour of sloganeering, the protesting workers came down and handed over a memorandum to Naib Tehsildar Avinash Chander, who assured them of their meeting with the Deputy Commissioner.

Vipan Kumar, a member of the NRHM, said they were demanding a salary hike.

The state government has announced to regularise around 36,000 adhoc workers, but those working under the NRHM were not been included in the draft-proposal.

Anju Rani of the ASHA Workers’ Union said we have been working on a nominal commission for the last seven years. She said the government was not giving them regular salary.

“We were promised an increase in honorarium, but the government was yet to fulfil the same,” she said.

The Paramedical Staff Union said the NRHM workers continued providing their services even during the Covid wave.