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Assam 108 Ambulance Strike Reaches Day 4 as Hundreds of Staff Are Sacked

The chief minister says negotiations will begin only after employees return to duty.

Overview

  • Nearly 3,000 drivers, technicians and call staff have stayed off work since December 1, disrupting emergency response across Assam.
  • EMRI Green Health Services has issued over 500 termination letters for insubordination and dereliction of duty, while worker leaders allege the tally is closer to 700.
  • The operator has invoked a no-work-no-pay policy, set a return-to-duty deadline, and launched large-scale hiring with trainers brought in from other states.
  • EMRI says it has kept partial service running by reallocating resources and deploying new and temporary staff, reporting roughly 600 ambulances back in operation by Day 4.
  • Strikers demand job regularisation, higher pay and payment of long-pending overtime, and they vow to continue the agitation until a negotiable offer is presented.