Srinagar, Jan 28: More than one and half year after their disengagement, the paramedics of GMC Srinagar on Tuesday appealed to the Chief Minister and Health Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, seeking their intervention to address their grievances.
In June last year, GMC Srinagar disengaged 93 paramedics who were engaged on academic arrangements out of total 477 appointees who had completed 12 years of their services.
The disengaged paramedics said they have been suffering from the delay of getting justice and they along with dependent families have been going through mental trauma.
They said they have been put to starvation due to untimely disengagement, without waiting for the final outcome of the whole SRO-384 sub-judice with the Supreme Court of India.
“As such being identically placed appointees, we humbly seek attention and cognizance of the matter for quashing our termination, till the pendency of the matter with the Supreme Court, which is paramount,” they said.
The paramedics now disengaged said they have suffered both financially and mentally. “Any delay in justice shall have a disastrous impact on our lives and our families,” they said.
The appointments of paramedical appointees like junior grade nurses, anaesthesia assistants, ECG assistants, junior pharmacists, theatre assistants, x-ray assistants were made on temporary basis by GMC Srinagar in 2012 for six years under SRO-384 without any regularization policy.
Pertinently, many employees of different departments hired under various schemes on contractual basis were regularized after seven years and some hirings were brought under ambit of schemes like Rehbare Ziraat, Rehbare Khaeel etc and absorbed from time to time.
However, appointments of GMC Srinagar hired under academic arrangements have been left in lurch. They have worked in tough times like 2014 floods, 2016 unrest and the 2019 Covid-19 lockdown and have suffered huge losses.
They said they see a dark future ahead as they have no other way to go as most of them have crossed their age eligibility to apply for fresh posts.
However, a senior official of the Health and Medical Education declined to comment on the issue saying recruitment on academic arrangements was blocking permanent seats.
