Kota Srinivas Poojary, MLC, has called for regularisation of as many as 2,500 nurses working on contract basis across the State.
Mr. Poojary told presspersons here on Tuesday that they should be paid revised minimum wages till their services were regularised. Presently, the minimum wage is Rs. 4,575 per month. As per new norms, they should be paid Rs. 17,650 per month.
“If Health and Family Welfare Minister U.T. Khader does not respond to the demand, we will hold a dharna in front of Mr. Khader’s office in the Vikas Soudha before the start of the monsoon session in Belagavi on June 29,” he said.
Promise
The previous BJP government had promised to regularise the services of the nurses. But the present Congress government had not taken the proposal forward, he added.
