The strike by the contractual employees belonging to Uttarakhand Purva sainik kalyan Nigam Limited (UPNL) and Prantiya Rakshak Dal (PRD) deployed in health department affected the health services in Dehradun on Thursday. Agitated by non receipt of salaries from last five months, these workers deployed in district hospital, Gandhi Centenary eye hospital, Coronation, Prem Nagar hospital and many Community Health Centres ( CHC) are on a three day work boycott. On the day, these workers assembled outside the office of Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dehradun and held a vehement protest.
The Kedarnath MLA, Manoj Rawat arrived at the agitation site to express his support. He said that the salaries of the workers should be disbursed without any further delay. Prominent employee leader Thakur Prahlad Singh also addressed the agitated workers.
The general secretary of the UPNL Karamchari Mahasangh, Hemant Singh Rawat said that apart from non disbursement of salaries, the contract of the workers has not be renewed. He said that the federation had submitted memorandums to CMO, Director General (DG) health services and secretary health and pleaded that their pending salaries should be released but no action has been taken yet by them. Rawat said that the agitation of the health workers would continue till their demand is fulfilled. He threatened that the employees would go on a state wide strike if the salaries are not disbursed.