Fifth biennial convention of federation of Uttarakhand mother, child and family welfare women employees was held at press club here on Monday. The Minister for forest, AYUSH, labour and employment Harak Singh Rawat who was the chief guest on the occasion said that he would refrain from making any announcements as model code of conduct has been enforced in the State.
However, at the same time, he assured that genuine demands of the workers would be addressed.
The president of the association Guddi Matura said that the women health workers while working under tough conditions have given positive results in all the Government-run health schemes.
She, further, said that the Government order for second Assured Career Progression (ACP) after completion of 16 years of service should be implemented without delay.
She demanded that recruitment drive should be undertaken to fill 800 vacant posts of female health workers in the state health and family welfare department.
The Director General ( DG) health services, Dr T C Pant, additional director National Programmes Dr Saroj Naithani, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dehradun Dr S K Gupta and the president of State employees joint federation Thakur Prahlad Singh besides the health workers were present at the convention.