Indore: Health services in government hospitals were affected on Monday as more than 350 contractual employees of the department went on three-day strike to press for their demands. In all, 19,000 employees across the state are on strike for three days.
The employees also staged protest and gheraoed health minister Tulsi Silawat and submitted a memorandum. “We met health minister for long pending demands but he again gave us assurance. We will go on indefinite strike if our demands were not met in three days,” district president of Contractual Health Employees Association Neetu Kelde said.
She said major demands include increment of contractual employees (which is equal to 90 per cent salary of regular employees), revoking suspension of contractual employees and regularising their services. “Government issued an order in our favour on June 5, 2018, but it couldn’t be implemented. Congress government had also mentioned about regularising contractual employees in their manifesto but nothing has been done,” Kelde added.
The contractual employees also told minister that regularisation has been given to the department employees but not to contractual employees of the health department.
