| GMC Jammu employees without salaries, Srinagar employees enjoy | | Official discrimination | | Bijay Charak
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 22: In yet another instance of discrimination, the paramedical employees of GMC Jammu, appointed under SRO 384/409 have been deprived of their salaries, while same has been released in favour of their counterparts in GMC Srinagar.
Wishing anonymity, an employee working GMC&H Jammu informed Early Times that around one thousand Paramedical employees were appointed under SRO 384/409 in GMC Jammu/Srinagar and its associated hospitals. While the employees working in GMC&H Srinagar who completed six-years of service were getting salary regularly, their counter parts in Jammu were without salary from last one year though they are rendering their services in GMC Jammu, SMGS Hospital, SSH, CD Hospital and Dental College.
Sources further said that more than four hundred paramedical employees including Nurses, Technician and Multipurpose Health Workers were working in GMC Jammu and its associated hospitals and GMC Jammu administration had withheld their salary for the last one year.
Another paramedical employee of GMC Jammu said that the last salary released by the administration was in the month of February 2017 and more than one year had lapsed, they were without salaries.
"Whenever we inquire about our salary from higher officials of hospital, they advocated shortage of funds and assured us that the matter had been taken-up with government and pending dues will be cleared as early as possible", they said, and rued that despite repeated assurances, nothing has been done in favour of employees.
"The delay on part of government to release the salary has created lot of problems for us", said another female employee working in GMC Jammu, adding that she was unable to meet her household expenses and even the grocery stores had refused to lend her any more items on credit. "I belong to a very poor family in remote area of Udhampur district, and I have to spend Rs 150 on daily basis on transportation and food, it has become very difficult for me to meet my requirements in the absence of salary", she said. |
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