Irfan Tramboo
SRINAGAR, Dec 26: A Group of Officers already formed by the Government is going to look into the aspect of how much time it will take to draft the much awaited Regularization Policy for around 8000 National Health Mission (NHM) employees across J&K.
The development has come after this newspaper carried a report with regard to the non- seriousness of the administration in framing a draft Regularization Policy for NHM employee who are working across J&K in different capacities—even after promising the same more than year ago.
It was informed by a delegation that met the Financial Commissioner, Health and Medical Education Atal Dulloo and Mission Director NHM, Bhupinder Kumar a day before, that, in major step with regard to the regularization, a meeting of the ‘Group of Officers’ will be conducted in coming days.
The employees, during the meeting, were told that already the ‘Group of Officers’ has been formed and a meeting of that group will also be conducted in coming days.
Among other many demands, the main demand of the employees is their regularization along with equal pay for equal work. Earlier, under the administration of former Governor, Satya Pal Malik, they were assured that their demands will be addressed. However, so far, nothing has been done for them.
Both the officials, as per the delegation, assured the employees, who have been pressing for their demands for quite a long time now that, all their issues are set to be addressed in days to come. The employees have been assured by the authorities that their pending demands will be fulfilled in days.
A member of the delegation told Excelsior that the meeting was held in a cordial manner and the demands that the employees have been putting forth were discussed again during the twin meetings and the response that was given was overwhelmingly positive.
After the meeting, the employees are saying that they are quite assured that something will be done for them. “We were given assurances and if they will go according to the assurances made, we are quite hopeful that our demands will be met,” the employees said.
Last year, all the employees working under the Mission observed a State-wide strike to press for their demands. The administration had assured them that their demands were “genuine” and “something will be done about it.”
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