‘During the Corona period, after risking my life…’, the female worker became emotional and said that she had not received her salary for two months.

Himachal Pradesh News: If the employees who work on salary every month to support their families do not get their salaries, then how will their families be supported? This same question has arisen before the contract workers working in Indira Gandhi Medical College in Shimla.

In IGMC, sanitation workers, ward attendants, mess workers and other paramedical staff along with laundry workers have not received their salaries. On Monday afternoon, IGMC Contract Workers Union gathered at the main gate under the banner of CITU and staged a protest regarding their demands.

Direct warning of major movement

Indira Gandhi Medical College Contract Workers Union has raised demands from the Principal, Additional Director and Medical Superintendent of the hospital that their salaries along with other demands should be fulfilled as soon as possible. If this does not happen, then after December 23, the path of agitation will be taken against the alleged nexus of the Indira Gandhi Medical College administration and the contractors. Under this, strikes and protests will be held. Not only this, the union has also warned of siege of Raj Bhavan, Secretariat and senior officials.

Wet eyes warned of decisive movement

The union alleges that the contractors are exploiting them in collaboration with the hospital management. A female employee, who had been working as a contract employee in Indira Gandhi Medical College for a long time, became emotional while talking to the media and narrated her ordeal while crying. Women employees said that during the Corona period, they served such patients whose family members were not even ready to go to them. Today, the hospital administration is bearing the fruits of their hard work that they are not being paid their salaries on time.

Rules are being violated- Mehra

At the same time, CITU State President Vijendra Mehra said that the contractors are seriously exploiting the workers. Employees should be paid on time, but due to a conspiracy, salaries are not being paid. He said that there are about 150 employees in the hospital who have not been paid salaries for two months.

This is against the rules. Additional work is also done from all these employees. Despite this they are not being paid salaries. He said that this is a blatant disregard of the Indira Gandhi Medical College’s contractor labor law and also the agreement reached in the labor office on June 12.

He has warned that if their demands are not met, then soon these hospital employees will take to the streets and demonstrate. When an attempt was made to talk to Dr. Rahul Rao, Medical Superintendent of Indira Gandhi Medical College about this, he could not be contacted.

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