Nurses8217; strike enters 18th day

The president of the association S. Durga Yadav said that it is not for sheer pleasure that the nurses have taken to agitation, instead they have been compelled to take the step by the government.

Yadav said the Fifth Pay Panel award was a cruel joke with the nursing community. The nurses were at par with junior engineers in Third Pay Panel report.

The Fourth Pay Panel report brought them at par with B.Ed teachers. But the Fifth Pay Panel relegated them a level below the B.Ed teachers.

She said nursing was a profession. The Haryana govt had promised to grant the pay scales on the Central pattern. But when the Delhi nurses were given a package of Rs 2,000 the Haryana government was going back on its promise, she alleged.