PGI sanctions pending arrears of outsourced hospital attendants

PGI authorities have sanctioned Rs 22.57 crore to the contractor on Thursday to disburse the pending arrears of outsourced Hospital Attendants from November 2018 to December 2023 soon into their salary accounts.

The Hospital Attendants Contract Workers Union (HACWU) on October 10 had gone on a week-long strike affecting essential services. Later, the Punjab and Haryana High Court intervened and instructed outsourced workers to call off the strike and return to work.

Since the end of strike on October 17, Vikramjit Singh, president, PGI All Contract Workers Union, along with Rajesh Chauhan, president, HACWU, and Gurdeep Kaur, president, Mahila Contract Workers Union, pursued the matter with PGI authorities. As PGI has sanctioned Rs 22,57,73,572 in favour of BVG Indian Ltd, Singh and other presidents are grateful to PGI administration for meeting their demands before the year end. They also conveyed that the amount will be disbursed in a matter of days.

Singh added, “This fight for arrears would have not been incomplete without the support of sanitation attendants, kitchen bearers and laundry technicians as they came out in support of our fellow outsourced workers.”