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Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association (KGMCTA), which had temporarily deferred its plans to spell connected an indefinite boycott of outpatient objective services and world activities successful Medical Colleges crossed the State by 1 week, has decided to resume its agitation.
On Saturday, the authorities had travel retired with a caller order, acceding to 1 of the main demands of KGMCTA, that the anomalies successful wage revision, which had resulted successful a reduced wage bundle for doctors astatine the introduction cadre of the Medical Education Service beryllium rectified.
KGMCTA, successful a connection issued here, pointed retired that adjacent though the caller has not afloat resolved the wage anomaly successful the introduction cadre, they welcomed the government’s affirmative action. It however, expressed its beardown resentment and protestation that the outgo of wage revision arrears owed to the Government Medical College doctors since 2026 has been wholly ignored.
Despite the issuance of the caller order, the government’s continued neglect of the long-pending wage revision arrears of doctors – contempt repeated assurances implicit the years – is wholly unacceptable, KGMCTA president Rosenara Beegum and wide caput C.S. Aravind said present connected Saturday.
“At a clip erstwhile the authorities has decided to afloat wide the wage revision arrears owed to different State authorities employees, the continued neglect of Medical College doctors – who had worked tirelessly during the COVID-19 pandemic to prevention lives – is highly condemnable and unjustifiable. The authorities cannot amusement this injustice to doctors,” they said.
In this context, the State committee of KGMCTA which met present connected Saturday, decided that the organisation has nary enactment but to proceed the agitation.
Though KGMCTA had deferred its agitation, to springiness the authorities clip to instrumentality decisions, it has been continuing its protestation done non practice with the authorities and by organising a relay hunger onslaught astatine Thiruvananthapuram Government Medical College.
The relay hunger onslaught entered time 12 connected Saturday. Doctors from aesculapian colleges crossed the State person been participating successful the hunger onslaught each these days, keeping up the momentum gained by the agitation.
