RESMA on 10,000 Doctors in Rajasthan
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Jaipur: The Rajasthan government invoked the Rajasthan Essential Services Maintenance Act (RESMA) on more than 10,000 thousand doctors. The notification came in the wake of the All-Rajasthan In-Service Doctors Associations decision to indefinitely strike work from December 18 over various demands.
The state government in its notification clarified that all services, offices, and activities of the state Medical and Health Department under essential services for the next three months starting from December 17, 2017.
The move would prohibit mass leaves, strikes, and interruption in the services of the department for the aforesaid period, officials said.
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Demand of Doctors
ARISDA had made a call for a state wide strike of government doctors in the wake of various pending demands not being fulfilled by the government. Various demands the doctors include hazardous service allowance, increase in rural allowance and single shift hospitals. Health officials said most of the demands had already been met and the remaining ones were in the pipeline.
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