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The Tamil Nadu Nurses Empowerment Association has decided to intensify protests seeking regularisation of services, instauration of nursing posts based connected diligent load, and assistance of adjacent wage for adjacent work. It volition motorboat a bid of protests, opening with information successful the objection organised by the Tamil Nadu Government Employees’ Association connected Thursday (December 4, 2025).
A hunger protest, primitively planned to beryllium held astatine the territory office level, volition present instrumentality spot successful Chennai connected December 18. The relation has decided to enactment successful the “rights retrieval” hunger protestation scheduled for December 13 by the Joint Action Council of Tamil Nadu Teachers’ Organisations and Government Employees’ Organisation, followed by a league connected December 27 and an indefinite onslaught from January 6, 2026.
Nearly 8,000 nurses recruited done the Medical Services Recruitment Board, who are connected consolidated pay, person been waiting for regularisation of their services for 8 years. The DMK, successful its predetermination manifesto, had promised each nurses connected consolidated wage would beryllium regularised, but aft coming to power, it neither created caller imperishable posts nor took immoderate steps to regularise their services. Instead, the authorities redeployed nurses and has been appointing nurses connected contractual ground for caller wellness facilities specified arsenic the Kalaignar Centenary Super Speciality Hospital and the Government Hospital, Periyar Nagar, the relation said.
The Madras High Court had besides ruled that nurses connected consolidated wage should beryllium granted time-scale wage akin to regular nurses connected the ground of adjacent wage for adjacent work. However, the State authorities has gone up and filed an entreaty successful the Supreme Court.
With the predetermination lone 4 months away, this shows that the DMK authorities is not keen connected fulfilling its electoral promise, the relation contended. It besides seeks the instauration of nursing posts based connected diligent load arsenic recommended by the National Medical Commission and the Indian Public Health Standards. The State authorities should fulfil its electoral promise, retreat its entreaty successful the Supreme Court and assistance adjacent wage for adjacent work, and halt appointing nurses connected consolidated pay, the relation added.
