NHM employees tonsure heads to press for demands in Sonepat, Panipat

Panipat, August 12

The National Health Mission (NHM) employees under the banner of NHM Karamchari Sanjha Morcha continued their chain hunger strike on Monday. Five protesting members shaved their heads at the protest site in Sonepat and Panipat Civil Hospitals to show their anger towards the state government for not fulfilling their demands. The protesting employees also raised slogans against the state government.

In Sonepat, the NHM employees led by general secretary Sheela Antil gathered at the protest site in the morning. Kaptan Rana, district president, NHM, Surender Katariya, Praveen Dahiya, Mukesh Dahiya and Sandeep shaved their heads at the protest site.

In Panipat, the protesting NHM employees led by president Amit Malik gathered at the hospital and staged a dharna. Five employees shaved their heads at the protest site. Amit Malik, district president, Panipat, said regularisation, LTC, gratuity, earned leave, childcare leave, Seventh Pay Commission and cashless medical facility were the main demands of employees.

Kaptan Rana, district president, Sonepat, said the NHM Karamchari Sanjha Morcha had decided to intensify their agitation. He further said the NHM employees would beg at public places in all districts on Tuesday, hold a protest march on August 14 and 15 and organise blood donation camps.

Besides, the NHM employees would also meet public representatives and people in villages and cities and brief them about injustice, the government is doing with them, and anti-employees policies, Rana said. “If the government does not fulfil our demands, employees would be forced to sit on a hunger strike till death,” Rana said. — TNS