Haryana doctors rue pay panel recommendations

A three-member committee has been constituted to look into the matter. The committee includes Dr Harnam, Dr Shivdutt Udas and Dr Naresh Sharma. After consulting the association members, it will submit its views to the state government, sources said.

Dr Vijay Dahiya, president of HCMSA said the recommendations of the commission for doctors working in government hospitals are 8220;disappointing8221;.

8220;The Haryana government has failed to fulfil its promise of making the pay scale of government doctors equal to that of doctors in Punjab. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had assured us and the Finance department too had approved the proposal of a pay hike for the doctors, but the decision did not see the light of the day,8217;8217; said Dr Dahiya.

While the MD and MS in Punjab get a monthly salary of around Rs 50,000 per month, those in Haryana will get Rs 25,000 per month after the implementation of the recommendations. Earlier they were getting around Rs 18,000.

Members of the HCMSA said the three-member committee will decide the future course of action at the meeting at Rohtak.

While there has been a 76 per cent rise in the pay of Haryana civil secretariat employees, the nursing staff and teachers too have got a substantial pay hike, said a member of the HCMSA.

Meanwhile, the Haryana Information and Public Relations Employees8217; Association HIPROA and Haryana Ministerial Staff Association HMSA too have rejected the new pay scales.

Officers of the Haryana Public Relations department met Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Chief Secretary Dharamvir in regard to anomaly in the pay proposals.

They handed over a memorandum to the CM, complaining against the 8220;unsatisfactory8221; recommendations of the Haryana Pay Commission committee.

A senior officer said the government is looking into the matter on priority basis. 8220;We will be able to sort out the issue regarding pay anomalies of different association soon,8217;8217; he said.