National Health Mission staff threaten ‘boycott’
Agra : More than one lakh contractual employees working under the National Health Mission (NHM) in Uttar Pradesh have threatened a statewide work boycott from Oct 8 if the govt fails to issue concrete, written orders on their long-pending demands by Oct 7. Association district president Sachin Jain said employees had staged a 15-day strike followed by a 10-day hunger strike in 2016. The association representatives said they had approached ministers and legislators over the past 15 days to avert the agitation.
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A subsequent written agreement with the then principal secretary (health) assured employees additional marks in regular govt recruitment, but no effective order had been issued even after nearly a decade, he said. Jain said some employees who had waited for the promised benefit had since crossed the prescribed age limit for govt recruitment. “We want clear and written orders on our demands,” said association general secretary Manikant Tyagi. Staff member Sanjay Kumar said state minister Kapil Dev Agarwal had written to the “higher authorities” seeking consideration of their demands.
The agreement also included assurances of facilities for NHM employees on the lines of those available in other states. Download the TOI App. The announcement was made at a press conference held by the NHM Contract Employees’ Association at the district hospital in Muzaffarnagar on Tuesday.