Over 17,000 NHM contract employees in Telangana announce two-day strike from November 7

The National Health Mission (NHM) Contract and Outsourcing Employees Union, Telangana, has announced a two-day Statewide onslaught connected November 7 and 8, to property for long-pending demands, including wage revision and occupation regularisation. The national stated that if their concerns are not addressed, they volition clasp a State-level protestation successful Hyderabad connected November 17.

The employees are demanding adjacent wage for adjacent work, timely outgo of salaries, regularisation of long-serving declaration and outsourcing staff, and amended moving conditions. According to the union, astir 17,541 NHM employees moving successful 78 antithetic programmes crossed the State volition enactment successful the strike.

The employees, including aesculapian officers, nurses, laboratory technicians, pharmacists and enactment staff, person said that contempt repeated representations, the authorities has not responded to their grievances.

Union leaders said the NHM workers person been serving successful important roles for years but proceed to look debased wages, deficiency of occupation information and delays successful wage disbursement.