The State Government on Wednesday announced a Diwali bonanza for all Assistant Surgeons and specialists and medical college teachers appointed on contract basis against vacant posts with a hefty hike in their consolidated monthly remunerations.
The hike was announced by Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, who said the revised salary would be effective from October 1 this year.
He said the specialist doctors working in rural and urban areas of the KBK districts would now get a monthly pay of Rs50,000 and Rs45,000 as against their existing pay of Rs30,000 and Rs25,000, respectively.
The consolidated pay for the Assistant Surgeons working in the KBK area would receive Rs40,000 against an earlier pay packet of Rs24,000 while their counterparts placed in the non-KBK areas would now get Rs35, 000 against Rs20, 000 earlier.
The pay for specialist doctors working in the District Headquarters Hospitals (DHHs) and Sub-Divisional Hospitals (SDHs) in KBK has been revised from Rs25,000 to Rs45,000 while for the specialist doctors working in the non-KBK DHHs and SDHs the pay has been hiked from Rs22,000 to Rs40,000.
Besides, the specialist doctors working in the non-KBK periphery areas would now receive a remuneration of Rs45,000 against the existing Rs25,000. The Minister also informed that specialists (anaesthesiology and radiology) working in DHHs and SDHs would receive a revised pay of Rs50,000 against the existing Rs30,000.
The Government has also revised the monthly consolidated remuneration for teachers appointed on contract basis in Government medical colleges and hospitals.
The Minister informed about a revision of the remuneration of Professors to Rs80,000 (previously Rs50,000), Associate Professors Rs55,000 (previously Rs40,000), Assistant Professors working for more than five years and appointed recently Rs35,000 (previously Rs30,000).
The Minister said that the revised salary of these doctors and medical teachers will be effective from October 1
this year.