Raipur 30 September 2020. Action has been taken by the state government to stop the increment of one officer each on the five officers who have not withdrawn the allotted amount for the financial year 2018 -2019 for rehabilitation of the mortgage workers. A letter to this effect has been sent from the Labor Commissioner Office to the concerned. It may be mentioned that on July 7, 2018, on the instructions of the Ministry of Labor and Employment, Government of India and the order of the Labor Commissioner Raipur, for the formation of the Mortgage Labor Rehabilitation Fund, Assistant Labor Commissioner Office Raipur and Raigad and Labor Officer Office Jagdalpur, Balodabazar and Mahasamund districts were allocated an amount of ten lakh rupees. The amount allocated by these offices was not withdrawn within the stipulated time period. Due to which the amount was lapsed and the Mortgage Workers Rehabilitation Fund could not be set up in the respective districts. Taking seriously the negligence of the officials of these districts, the State Labor Government took seriously the Assistant Labor Commissioner, Mr. Vikas Sarode, the then Assistant Labor Commissioner in charge of Raipur District. Instructions have been given to stop the increments of Shri Shoaib Qazi, Jagdalpur and Baloda Bazar District Labor Officers Shri BS Bariha and Tejesh Chandrakar and Assistant Labor Officer Shri Ghanshyam Panigrahi of Mahasamund District respectively.
Raipur: Increase in salary of five officials who did not withdraw funds for Mortgage Workers Rehabilitation Fund stopped
RAIPUR: With the Chhattisgarh government appearing to be in no mood to meet the demand of the striking Junior Residents doctors (JRs), officials have started mounting pressure on the Raipur Medical College authorities to get the hostel rooms vacated from the medicos. The health department had served notices to the striking doctors on Thursday, directing them to vacate their hostel rooms if the strike wasn t withdrawn. Sources said health officials are now pressuring the Medical College authorities to implement the notices and use force, if necessary, to get the hostels vacated. They have asked to get the room vacated and lock the hostels , said a college functionary on condition of anonymity. The government has also directed the college to ensure that no protests or dharnas are organized by the striking medicos in the college and hospital premises. In case the JRs want to stage a sit-in for their demands, they should be asked to go to Budhatalab, the designated area for protests. Till the filing of the report, college authorities maintained that they had yet not initiated the process of getting the rooms vacated. However, the striking doctors claimed that some of them were forced out of their rooms last night and they had slept outside of Out Patient department (OPD). Dr Kamlesh Agarwal 00004000, member of Junior Doctors Association said since the government is not willing to accept their demand for a hike in their stipend, the strike will continue. No matter what they do, we will not withdraw the strike , he said. It reliably learnt that the striking doctors were trying to seek the intervention of the state health minister, Amar Aggarwal, to end the impasse. Besides, vacation of hostel rooms, the government has also threatened to cancel the Post Graduate seats if the strike continues. Meanwhile services at the hospital continued to remain adversely affected by the strike. Though government has called in 50 doctors from district hospitals to meet the shortage of 200 odd JRs, they were proving to be ineffective due to new surroundings and different work cultures.