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The strike by around 3,500 HIV/AIDS counsellors and lab technicians across the state,demanding regularisation of service and better wages,entered the 29th day on Tuesday,as the government said it was high time they joined duties. We know that our AIDS patients are suffering but we had to go on a strike as the salary given to us is almost half of what the permanent employees are getting although the workload is the same, said Rupesh Balerao,Secretary ofMaharashtra Rajya AIDS Niyantrana Karmachari Union.We met the government officials concerned today and told them that even if they do not regularise the post,at least they should pay us at par with the regular workers and provide medical facilities, he said. Ramesh Devkar,Project Director of Maharashtra State AIDS Control Society (MSACS),said these appointments are based on funding of a project and as soon as the funding is over their jobs are terminated. We have tolerated the strike for almost a month,but it is high time they join the duties, said Devkar.
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