NHM Employees Demand Regularisation, Social Security

Employees working under the National Health Mission (NHM) across Jammu and Kashmir on Friday reiterated their long-pending demands of regularisation, service bylaws, salary revision and social security benefits.

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Addressing a press conference here, the representatives of the Association said that despite rendering uninterrupted services for over two and a half decades, NHM employees, comprising doctors, paramedics and management staff, continue to work without a proper job policy, uniform service rules or social security, causing severe distress to their families and dependents.

“We have been raising our genuine demands for more than 25 years through every available forum, but successive governments have failed to deliver justice to NHM employees who form the backbone of public healthcare in Jammu and Kashmir,” the representatives said.

They said that all formalities related to the regularisation of NHM employees have already been completed and lie pending at the Civil Secretariat under File No. HD/NHM/10/2015.

The Association informed that a High-Level Committee, followed by a Sub-Committee in 2018, had recommended phased regularisation of 1,026 NHM employees, a proposal that was even placed and approved on the floor of the then J&K Legislative Assembly.