Regularise NHM employees , DRWs, thier services in public service delivery commendable: Hakeem tells Centre, JK Govt

Srinagar/July 14:  Chairman, People’s Democrstic Front (PDF) Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen on Tuesday appealed  Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lieutenant Governor G. C. Marmu to regularize services of National Health Mission (NHM) employees of jammu and kashmir. He said NHM employees are rendering commendable health care services to the people and are working as front line warriors against existing Coronavirus pandemic in various hospitals of the jammu and kashmir Union Territory. He has urged for regularzation of daily wagers, contractual and need based workers of various departments.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Hakeem  while urging Prime Minister Narinder Modi and L.G. G. C. Marmu to concede to the long pending demand of the NHM employees to regularise their services , has said that these employees are doing commendable job in the overall health care delivery system across Jammu and Kashmir especially in the remotest and in accessible areas . He said it was most heartbreaking to see that there was no mechanism in place to regularise the services of NHM employees , despite the fact they constitute as being backbone of the health care delivery system of Jammu and Kashmir. ” It was really heartbreaking to see that despite giving valuable years of their prime youth in the service of people under National Health Mission , their services are not regularised. He said it was high time for the LG to rise to the occasion and give recognition to them by regularising their services, ” Hakeem said adding ‘ let the regularisation mechanism be in a phased manner if not in one go ‘. He said, in view of the significance of NHM employees in the betterment of health care delivery, thier services have already been regularised in many other states of the country . He said denial of the genuine demands of NHM employees and especially their regularisation , amounts to usurping their basic rights and right to equal wages for equal work, guaranteed under the Constitution of India.
Hakeem said since Jammu and Kashmir was presently governed by central rule under Union Territory status, tonus primarily lies on the Prime minister, Narendra Modi and L. G. G C Marmu to fulfill the genuine demands of the NHM employees under central government employment rules and regulations.
Hakeem said NHM employees and other contractual and daily rated workers of the Jammu and Kashmir union territory have pinned high hopes with the LG. G. C. Marmu to regularise their services with out further delay . He hoped that the LG would take immediate action to concede to the demands of the NHM employees and bring thier services at par with other regular employees of the jammu and kashmir union territory. He said employees working under National health mission since last more than ten years without regularisation of their services see their future very uncertain and are confronted with severe scychological stress.
Hakeem Yaseen has urged the L G to come upto the expectations of the NHM employees and regularize their services immediately , in a phased manner, if not in one go.