NHM staff protest, seek regular jobs

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, May 3

National Health Mission contractual employees staged a protest at the Community Health Centre (CHC), Sangat Mandi block, Bathinda, demanding regular jobs.

The protesters said they had been working on the frontline to win the battle against Covid-19, with meagre salaries as their only reward.

The protesters said they had been rendering their services diligently in these trying times and demanded that it was time the government regularised their services and provided them with benefits of a government employee.

Narendar Kumar, convener, NHM Joint Front, Punjab, said, “The NHM contractual staff have been serving people for years, with some of them working for more than 10 years. It’s time the government regularise the employees on priority. The workers have been coerced to work on meagre salaries despite working shoulder to shoulder to win the war against the global pandemic.”