The administration of the National Health Mission (NHM) has decided to draft HR policy for its contractual employees. On Wednesday, a meeting of the NHM contractual employee association and the mission management was held.
In the meeting detailed discussions on the demands of the NHM employees was held. The president of the NHM contractual employee association, Sunil Bhandari said in the meeting the Additional Mission Director NHM, Dr Abhishek Tripathi and other senior officials took part and they positively responded on the demand of HR policy and loyalty bonus.
He said that the management has provided a draft of the HR policy and asked for suggestion on it. Bhandari said that the NHM management made it clear that the old contractual employees would not be brought under the ambit of third party appointments which the department is now contemplating.
These contractual appointments were made by the district and state level committees and the department is now planning to introduce third party system of appointments. Bhandari added that the management also gave assurance on the proposed reduction in the number of employees in the school health teams under the Rastriya Bal Swasthya Karyaram (RBSK) that proposed cut would be reconsidered. The association was informed that the employees being removed from school health teams would be merged in the NHM.
On the issue of the loyalty bonus it was decided to prepare a detailed proposal under the performance bonus head in the district Programme Implementation Plan (PIP). Bhandari also claimed that mission management assured that the process of salary rationalisation would soon start.