Jobless midwife workers protest at Doon MC office

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, February 8

Members of the Trained Unemployed ANM Association held a protest on the Municipal Corporation campus in support of their demand to give permanent jobs to Auxiliary Nurse Midwife workers. The protesters alleged that due to poor policies of the state government, many local ANM workers failed to get jobs, whereas ANM workers of other states got the job in Uttarakhand.

Earlier, irked ANM workers raised slogans against the state government and gave a memorandum to the Chief Minister and demanded to generate posts by converting 250 posts of man cadre into woman cadre.

President of the association Ritu Saini stated, “The state government gave jobs to outsiders whereas local trained ANM workers were left jobless, which is unfair. Even after the assurance of the government, no new posts are generated.”

She also asked the government to create posts and give permanent jobs to the leftover candidates. Otherwise, they would be forced to launch a protest against state government.

Madhu Joshi, Sarita Bisht, Rajni Nautiyal, Mamta Rawat and Neelam Joshi were among the protesters.