Ayurvedic doctors on par with allopathic officers: SC

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Updated At : 12:01 PM Mar 27, 2022 IST

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New Delhi, March 26

Ayurvedic doctors are entitled to parity in salary with allopathic medical and dental officers under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM/NHM) Scheme, the Supreme Court has said.

Refusing to entertain a petition challenging an order of the Uttarakhand High Court, a Bench led by Justice Vineet Saran on March 24 clarified ayurvedic doctors were entitled to be treated on a par with allopathic medical officers under the NRHM/NHM Scheme.

“There is no intelligible differentia so as to distinguish the ayurvedic and homoeopathic medical officers vis-à-vis allopathic and dental medical officers. There is no rationale why similarly situated persons have been discriminated against. The petitioners as well as allopathic and dental medical officers constitute a homogeneous class,” the HC had said. —

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