Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 2: NHM, RNTCP and NACO employees today decided to go for a hunger strike till their demands are not filled as their protest entered into 20th day today.
More than 4000 employees belonging to NHM, RNTCP, NACO and other central schemes gathered at Press Club Jammu and raised the slogans in support of their long pending demands.
Speaking on the occasion, Rohit Seth, president, All J&K NHM Employees’ Association, Jammu province, said, “The employees has decided to go for a hunger strike till their demands are fulfilled for which Government had given a written assurance last year after 34-day-long strike. He said those commitments and orders remained in papers and nothing was done on ground”.
The exhorted Governor Satya Pal Malik to fill full their demands as promised on January 16 with a high level committee of NHM employees. They said, “We have given 12 years of our precious time to serve the people at door step and the result of which have been witnessed that our State is being awarded as best performer in primary health care among all the states of India”.
The protest at Jammu was also joined by NHM, RNTCP, NACO and JKSACS employees from Kashmir and Ladakh with their children while as similar protests were also held at all District headquarters and Block head quarters.
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