Shillong, July 19: The salary of the 108 emergency service employees wil be hiked by 4%.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Health Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh said, “We have agreed therefore to re-sign those contracts with the 108 workers permitting after consultation a 4% percent increase in their salaries because these were pending before the National Health Mission (NHM) under the department of health.”
Lyngdoh said she had received a representation that there is another group of workers like EROs, pilots and receptionists in the 108 who are still dissatisfied with the 4% hike and they wanted 1 per cent more increment.
“There is no point discussing this but particularly three categories of workers – pilots, receptionists and EROs – so these workers when they first sign up the agreement with NHM for one year, started on a very much lower grade of renumeration so that has to be sorted out. I dont know whether or not we can do that but I have just received this representation on July 18, I will study it,” she said.
“in the meanwhile, we have renewed all of the agreements with the 108 workers and that was something we had to do as a government”, she added.
Another tender to run 108
She said the department is engaging with various departments for advisory on floating another tender for operating the 108 emergency service.
