Nurses want regularisation of services
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Those recruited through the Medical Services Recruitment Board stage protest
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Those recruited through the Medical Services Recruitment Board stage protest
Nurses recruited through the Medical Services Recruitment Board (MRB) staged a protest on Friday, demanding that the government regularise their services.
N. Subin, general secretary of the Tamil Nadu MRB Nurses’ Empowerment Association, said the State government had recruited 14,000 nurses through MRB since 2015. “Nurses are first recruited on a two-year contract on the basis of merit through an examination. The government says that the nurses will be absorbed under the regular timescale after two years, but this has not been done. Till date, only 2,000 nurses have been regularised,” he said.
Nurses stage protest demand job regularisation in Erode
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January 11, 2021 22:46 IST
Over 150 nurses from The Nilgiris, Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Karur, Erode, Namakkal and Salem districts take part in the protest
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Over 150 nurses from The Nilgiris, Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Karur, Erode, Namakkal and Salem districts take part in the protest
Urging the State government to regularise their services, members of the Tamil Nadu MRB Nurses’ Empowerment Association staged a demonstration on the Old Railway Station Road here on Monday.
The Association members said that about 9,000 nurses were recruited through the Medical Services Recruitment Board (MRB) and were engaged on contract basis in 2015 for a consolidated pay of ₹ 7,000 a month. All the nurses were working in Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in the State and as per the contract, their services should have been regularised after two years. But, the government did not regularise their service and