Nurses want regularisation of services
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Nurses recruited by means of the Medical Services Recruitment Board (MRB) staged a protest on Friday, demanding that the federal government regularise their services.
N. Subin, basic secretary of the Tamil Nadu MRB Nurses’ Empowerment Association, mentioned the State authorities had recruited 14,000 nurses by means of MRB since 2015. “Nurses are first recruited on a two-year contract on the basis of merit through an examination. The government says that the nurses will be absorbed under the regular timescale after two years, but this has not been done. Till date, only 2,000 nurses have been regularised,” he mentioned.
According to him, the State authorities has additionally not applied a court docket order to grant them “equal pay for equal work”. “When we joined, our monthly salary was ₹7,500. In 2017, following a protest, the government raised the pay to ₹14,000. But it has not implemented equal pay for equal work. As per this, we should get ₹42,000, on a par with staff nurses,” he mentioned.
Meanwhile, members of the federal government nurses’ associations wore black badges to work to attract the eye of the federal government to their calls for. They demanded pay on a par with Central authorities nurses, one-month particular pay that was introduced by the federal government for COVID-19 obligation, ex-gratia for nurses affected by COVID-19, and solatium in addition to authorities jobs for kin of nurses who died.
