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Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 2
The Punjab Civil Medical Services doctors today suspended their week-long protest following an assurance by Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu to take up their demands with Cabinet colleagues.
A delegation of the joint coordination committee led by Dr Gagandeep Singh, PCMS Association president, met Sidhu to discuss their demand for withdrawal of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendation to reduce their non-practicing allowance (NPA) from 25 per cent to 20 per cent and delink it from the basic pay.
“We met the minister today, who assured that our demand would be discussed in the Cabinet Sub-Committee meeting, scheduled for July 6. He assured that the order regarding the NPA would be set aside. Thus we have postponed our protest till Tuesday,” Dr Gagandeep Singh told The Tribune.