Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 12: Flaying the J&K Government for dismissal of 181 trained professionals of Health and Medical Education Department, National Panther Party’s chairman Harsh Dev Singh today appealed the President of India, Prime Minister, Union Health Minister and Lt Governor seeking immediate revocation of their termination.
Singh said that the ousted employees were agitating against their arbitrary termination but the local administration of Kathua and Rajouri was resorting to intimidate tactics with threats of putting the staff nurses behind bars. “Such an insensitive approach of concerned authorities needed to be condemned in the strongest possible words,” he added.
Described the Government response is irresponsible, Singh questioned as to how could the frontline workers fighting against the deadly virus be disengaged at a time when they were needed most and that too, on a pick and choose basis.
He said the health professionals had been selected under SRO-24 by following a proper procedure on the analogy of similarly circumstanced health workers engaged under SRO-384 and now the appointees are being terminated in an arbitrary and despotic manner.
He alleged that the H&ME Department had disengaged only the health professionals of Jammu region to the exclusion of identical class of health workers engaged under SRO-24 in Kashmir region. Moreover the UT Government is applying two different sets of norms for the two regions of J&K thereby escalating regional tensions, said Singh.
He cautioned to hold protest dharna outside the top officers of H&ME department in case the draconian termination orders of health staff were not immediately revoked.
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