Faridabad: Retrenchment of contract health workers resented

Tribune News Service

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Faridabad, June 30

Activists and members of the Sarva Karamchari Sangh (SKS), Haryana, a leading government employees’ body, staged a demonstration outside the office of the Civil Surgeon here today in protest against the alleged retrenchment of hundreds of health workers employed on contract basis in the past one year.

Claiming that the retrenchment was being done on behalf of contractors, despite the assurance given by the Health Minister and the Director-General for retaining the services of contractual workers., Subhash Lamba, president of the sangh, said while the action on the part of the authorities concerned to hire and fire in such a manner was wrong, he said removal of large number of workers from the job, without any reason was unjustified and had resulted in large-scale unemployment and resentment in nearly every district in the past one year. He said while an 11-point demand letter addressed to the Health Minister was handed over to the Deputy CMO, Rajesh Sheokand, he said the employees would be forced to intensify the agitation if the demand of readjustment or reemployment was not met soon.