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Pity, this govt has no money to pay these employees!
The contract and outsourcing employees working under the Director of Public Health and Family Welfare Department have not been getting their salaries for the past one year as the government had not released funds for the same.
Hyderabad: The contract and outsourcing employees working under the Director of Public Health and Family Welfare Department have not been getting their salaries for the past one year as the government had not released funds for the same. The total arrears to be paid to these employees from April 2015 are Rs 3.45 crore.
The state government employed 13 drivers with a salary of Rs 8,000 per month, 138 watch and ward staff with Rs 6,700 per month, a data entry operator with Rs 9,500 per month, four junior assistants with Rs 8,400 per month, two lab technicians for Rs 10,020 per month and 47 auxiliary nursing midwives (ANMs) with Rs 10,000 per month.
Besides this, the government has also agreed to pay other benefits, including 13.6 percent EPF, 4.75 percent ESI, 12.36 percent ST and 3.9 percent consultant profit to all the outsourcing and contract employees, who were recruited through third party consultants.
According to District Medical and Health Officer C Venkateshwar Rao, following recommendation from his department, the government had issued a GO to clear the pending dues until April 2015 and also asked the outsourcing employees to continue in their posts till March 2016. However, it did not include their salaries in the state annual budget during the financial year 2015-16.
In spite of several representations to the Director of Public Health and Family Welfare Department, the outsourcing and contract employees were not paid salaries till now, he added. Rao further said that even though the government passed the orders to clear the pending dues, the finance wing in the Director of the Health Department had not released the funds.
He said Finance Department officials claim that they cannot release the funds unless the government releases a GO in this regard. Rao said he had taken up the issue with concerned officials even on Sunday during the Pulse Polio programme.
He said he had been urging the Health Department officials to take up the issue with the officials concerned and see that Rs 3.45 crore was released immediately and also see that the necessary funds for 2016-17 were included in the next budget. Meanwhile, the contract employees who are in a pathetic situation due to non-payment of salaries staged protests at Pulse Polio camps in Hyderabad.
