DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 6 (MExN): Nagaland employees of National Health Mission (NHM) have resolved to cease work from December 15, 2016 onwards if the State Government does not release all their pending salaries by then. This also means all the affiliated programs with the NHM will come to a halt.
A press release received from the NHM Nagaland employees stated that a representation to this have already been submitted to the government on the last week of November.
It lamented that despite directives received from the Ministry to release funds from the State treasury to the State Health Society (NHM) account within 15 days of receipt of funds from the Government of India, the state was not following the directive. This has greatly hampered the timely release of salary of the NHM employees and its vertical program, it said.
The NHM employees also informed that it has received salary only till August 2016, which was released after a gap of more than three month while some program like IDSP and RNTCP have received salary only up to July 2016, which was released after more than six months gap.
It also pointed out that in July 2016; the aggrieved employees had given an ultimatum to the State Government for regular release of salary. However, after releasing the salaries of the pending months, the same trend is still being followed till date.
Stating that when the government can resort to “No work no pay”, the NHM employees said it would have no choice but to resort to “No pay no work.” The employees have also demanded for a permanent solution to the problem of delayed release of fund from the State Government.
