Medical Dental Teachers’ thumbs down against the State govt decision
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in
The medical dental doctors working in Government Medical and Dental Colleges in Patiala and Amritsar from today have started their indefinite protest against failure of the Punjab Government to rectify the anomalies in the non practice allowance (NPA) and restore it in the original form.
Ten medical dental teachers from different departments will daily sit in protest with complete shut down of OPD and elective surgeries along with daily suspension of administrative duties by faculty, routine Medicolegal services and class room teaching of medical students.
Medical Dental Teachers’ thumbs down against the State govt decision . According to Dr DS Bhullar, state General Secretary of Punjab State Medical and Dental Teachers Association (PSMDTA) the association have categorically requested the Punjab Government at all levels (Group of Ministers and Committee of Principal Secretaries) that NPA of the state government doctors must be retorted to the original 25 percent of the basic pay, linked to the basic pay as earlier and should be considered as part of the pay for calculation of Dearness and House Rent Allowance etc.
Further, the Academic Allowance of the doctors should also be restored and fixed at Rs. 2500 along with conveyance allowance of Rs. 2000.
Meeting of the Group of Ministers and Committee of Principal Secretaries (Finance, Health and Personal) of Punjab Government fixed on Thursday (July 22) at Chandigarh has been cancelled which has further irked the government doctors for delay in addressing their genuine demand in time.
Meanwhile, Indian Medical Association Patiala with more than 700 Allopathic city doctors has also extended full support to the government doctors for rectification of the NPA anomalies as demanded by PSMDTA, said Dr Neeraj Goyal president of the Patiala chapter of Indian Medical Association.
July 23,2021
