Thursday, 03 June 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
In a development which would affect the health services in Uttarakhand, the contractual workers of the National Health Mission (NHM) have decided to extend their work boycott (Mass home isolation) call till June 6. In support of their nine point demands, the NHM Contractual employee association were on protest from Tuesday. The president of the association Sunil Bhandari said that no one paid any heed to the demands of the contractual workers so the association was forced to extend the mass home isolation call. He said that now the employees deployed in essential services too would join the home isolation call. Bhandari said that the employees would boycott all online and offline works also. In the home isolation these workers would also take their selfies and tag them to the Prime Minister Naredra Modi, Union health minister Harshvardhan, chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat and other dignitaries.
These workers are demanding payment of loyalty bonus to them as per the provisions of NHM. As per the rules the employee who has completed three years of service would be given a 10 percent loyalty bonus while a 15 percent bonus would be given on completion of five years of service. The association claims that only 4.5 and 6.75 percent loyalty bonuses were paid to them on completion of three and five years of service respectively by the NHM Uttarakhand. The workers are also demanding a facility of cashless health cover on the lines of state government employees and other benefits.
There are more than 45000 contractual workers working in different services under NHM and are key for the functioning of the department.
