Expeditiously decide on Minimum salary for nurses : SC asks Kerala HC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked the Kerala High Court to expeditiously decide a matter relating to a state government notification fixing a minimum monthly basic salary of Rs 20,000 for nurses in private hospitals there.
A bench comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and Navin Sinha was told by the counsel for Kerala private hospitals association that the notification could be kept in abeyance for 2-3 weeks and the division bench of the high court be asked to decide the issue by then.
The lawyer said the association had 960 private hospitals, of which 630 hospitals had less than 25 beds.
"We will request the high court to deal with it," the bench observed after it was told that a division bench of Kerala High Court had on May 4 said it would take up the matter for further hearing after a month.
"We request the high court to dispose it of expeditiously in view of the nature of controversy that has to be decided," the bench said.
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