Tripura Health workers protest against Govt's Policy change on regularisation

By  Firstdespatch Desk   Jul 31, 2024

Agartala, July 31 (FD) Over 900 casual and daily wagers of the Tripura health department on Tuesday demonstrated before the Indira Gandhi Memorial (IGM) Hospital here against the state government’s decision to abolish the policy of regularising casual workers after 10 years of service in a government office.

The BJP, which is in power in the state, had earlier assured to regularise all contractual employees in its vision document before 2018 when it formed the government for the first time in Tripura.

During their agitation in front of the medical superintendent’s office, the contractual and daily rated workers (DRWs) also threatened to go on a large-scale agitation, including a fast-unto-death, if the state government did not agree to their demands.
The agitation occured five days after the state government issued a notice withdrawing the policy decision to regularise casual workers.
A protester said that there was a policy during the previous administration to make casual workers regular after 10 years of service. Our demand is to make them regular.
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The workers also demanded that a Tripura High Court order on equal pay for equal work be implemented. They further alleged that after coming to power in 2018, the BJP-IPFT government changed the policy even after they promised to regularise casual workers within three months of assuming office. FD JK