Don’t dismiss services of Mohalla clinic staff before next March: CAT to Delhi govt
A notice of two weeks has to be given to such employees if the services are terminated before March 31, 2026, according to an order dated August 21.
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In a related hearing on the matter in Delhi High Court, the HC recently asked the government to give a notice of two months to the AAMC staff in case it proposes to terminate their services before next March.
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has asked the Delhi government to not dismiss the services of nearly a thousand employees, engaged by the previous Arvind Kejriwal government in the Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinics (AAMC), before March 31 next year.
A notice of two weeks has to be given to such employees if the services are terminated before March 31, 2026, according to an order dated August 21. Pharmacists, assistants, and multitasking workers were employed on a contractual basis in the AAMCs under the previous AAP government. The tribunal also asked the government to file a detailed affidavit on the issue of regularisation of such staff members.
At least 1,000 staff members, who worked at the AAP’s flagship Mohalla Clinics, had filed an appeal with CAT, seeking a direction for absorbing all the staffers as employees of the Ayushman Arogya Mandirs, which have been set up by the BJP government in place of the AAMCs.
The employees also sought an order restraining the respondents to not fill any post in any Arogya Mandir across Delhi on a regular or contractual basis until all the staff at the AAMCs has been absorbed.
In a related hearing on the matter in Delhi High Court, the HC recently asked the government to give a notice of two months to the AAMC staff in case it proposes to terminate their services before next March.
The petition was filed by AAMC staff seeking directions against their termination and replacement with other contractual employees. They claimed that the BJP government has not given them a written assurance of absorbing them.
Earlier in May, CM Rekha Gupta had told doctors and staffers of mohalla clinics that they would all be absorbed in the Ayushman Arogya Mandirs.
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