Over 17,000 contract employees under the National Health Mission (NHM) in Telangana breathed a sigh of relief as they received two months’ worth of overdue salaries on March 20 out of the pending four months.
The NHM workers had been grappling with salary delays for the past four months, prompting them to prepare for a strike scheduled for Friday if the government failed to address their payment grievances.
Following The Hindu’s report on March 18 highlighting the issue, R.V. Karnan, Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare and Mission Director of Telangana’s NHM, engaged with representatives from the NHM Contract and Outsourcing Employees Union. He provided assurances that the outstanding salaries would be settled by March 20.
