Mumbai: Health Workers To Get Rs 12,000 As Remuneration From April

Mumbai, 17th March 2023: The remuneration of health workers who deliver health care services of Mumbai Municipal Corporation has been increased by one thousand rupees from April. Health workers will get 12 thousand rupees as remuneration from April. Last year, after the agitation by the health workers, the administration decided to increase the salary.

Health workers are working to provide various health services such as going door to door in elite societies, chalis, and slums, vaccinating children, distributing ‘A’ vitamins, disinfectant programs, male and female sterilization, finding patients of infectious diseases, implementing programs like pulse polio.

Four thousand health workers of Mumbai Municipal Corporation protested in March last year for various pending demands like minimum wage, provident fund, and house rent allowance. The agitation was called off after the administration promised to find a solution. The administration had also appointed a committee for this. The committee discussed with a delegation of health workers and submitted its report to Mumbai Municipal Corporation Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal on 28th March.

However, as no decision was taken regarding the fulfilment of the demands, finally the health workers’ association called an indefinite strike in June again. To prevent the health system from collapsing in the face of monsoon, the municipal administration had discussed with the representatives of the health workers and agreed to give a salary increase. An increase of Rs 2000 was agreed to be given from June 2022 and an increase of Rs.1000 in the next year in 2023.

Even after the salary hike was agreed upon, it was not implemented for four months. After follow-up by the organization, the administration gave a salary increase of two thousand rupees to the health workers from June 2022 along with arrears. Therefore, his remuneration was 11 thousand rupees. This year’s increase of one thousand rupees has been implemented from April, the president of the Municipal Health Service Employees’ Association, Adv. Prakash Devdas, said.

The court has ordered to pay at least eighteen thousand rupees to health workers from 2015. Devdas said that the municipal administration has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court against this order, and the decision is pending.