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Assam NHM Workers Mount Statewide Three-Day Sit-In Over Job Security, Pay Parity

Unions warn they will extend the stoppage without a written timeline from the government.

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Overview

  • Sit-ins entered day two on Nov 4 across district headquarters, disrupting routine services while emergency care continued.
  • The action is led jointly by the All Assam Health & Technical Welfare Association, the NHM Employees Association and allied unions staging coordinated work boycotts.
  • Demands include regularisation, 7th Pay Commission parity, equal pay under a 2013 Supreme Court ruling, and pension, gratuity and EPF/CPF coverage referencing a 2021 Assam Gazette notification.
  • Organisers say about 20,000 contractual NHM staff do work comparable to regular employees and have filed memorandums via deputy commissioners to the Chief Minister.
  • Unions say they will extend the protest to Nov 12 without a written commitment, noting past assurances from Himanta Biswa Sarma on regularisation and pay parity have not been met.