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Terminated employees of National Health Mission (NHM) have been staging continuous protests for the past 15-days demanding that their termination orders should be revoked and their contracts be renewed. But no one has paid any attention towards their pleas and it appears that the Health Department is in no mood to take them back.
The government has not renewed the contract of 1600 NHM employees. These contractual employees of the Health Department had played a pivotal role in the fight against COVID-19.
They were categorized as frontline warriors as they were at the forefront when the people needed them the most. After the decline in Covid cases, the government has decided that their services are not needed anymore and they can be shown the door.
Protesting employees are not demanding regularization of their services, they are seeking continuation and are hoping that the government will look back into their track record and take a call.
It’s not only the NHM employees who have been shown the door, during the past few months many contractual employees have been removed from their jobs without any reason being assigned.
The termination of contractual employees has put a question mark on the claims of the government that it’s working 24x7 to address unemployment.
Someone needs to tell the helmsmen that unemployment cannot be addressed by throwing people out from their jobs.
Unemployed educated youth hitting the streets in J&K has become an everyday affair. It’s a serious issue and it needs to be addressed. The government has not been able to come up with a comprehensive policy to address the issue of unemployment.
The figures released by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) recently revealed that the unemployment rate in Jammu and Kashmir has touched 25%.
The unemployment rate in J&K, according to the CMIE, is higher than the national level unemployment rate of 7.6 percent recorded across the country.
These figures reveal that nothing much has been done to address the issue of unemployment even after the abrogation of Article 370. Providing permanent jobs looks like a difficult task, but at least the government should make an attempt to keep the contractual jobs intact. |
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