Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 6: Police in Srinagar’s City Centre today used teargas, batons and detained scores of National Health Mission (NHM) employees who are protesting for last six days seeking their regularization and release of withheld salaries.
Hundreds of NHM employees, including females, staged massive protests here in press enclave against State Government. They were demanding their regularization and release of salaries. The employees of NHM are protesting since last six days. However, police personnel who were also present there used batons against the protesters in a bid to break up the protest.
The police cane charge created panic among the NHM employees and there were chaos as they shouted ‘we want justice’. Although the employees were largely dispersed by the police cane charge but they again appeared at Poloview and staged protest. The police used cane charge and fired teargas shells to disperse the NHM employees including females.
According to witnesses, police detained scores of NHM employees who were protesting against the State Government and lodged them in nearby police station. From past days, the NHM employees are out on roads in favour of their demand of the regularization and release of pending salaries. They have stopped working since a week and this has affected the working in health institutes in Valley.
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