RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Jan 31: Former minister and senior congress party leader Bandhu Tirkey demanded a high-level committee to ensure the regularisation of health workers working on a contract basis for a long time by writing a letter to state health Minister Banna Gupta.
Notably, Tirkey justified the demand by saying that most of the contractual health workers are tribal and natives of Jharkhand for whom the state has come into existence in 2,000.
The former minister raised the demand observing over 56,000 health workers on strike for their service regularisation or for improvement of their service condition.
In his letter, he mentioned that agitating contractual workers have been working for more than 10 years in primary health centres (PHCs) established in urban and rural areas of different districts of Jharkhand as well as in hospitals.
“If the rules of reservation roster have been followed in their appointment and they have been appointed according to the rules to fill the declared vacant posts, then their regularisation is the need of the hour,” Tirkey asserted.
