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AP: NTR Vaidya Mithra employees stage dharna demanding regularisation of services

Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh), Mar 17 (UNI) In response to the state union call, the NTR Vaidya Mithra contract and outsourcing employees have staged a dharna in front of the DMHO’s office here on Monday demanding regularisation of their services.
They raised slogans demanding Rs.35,000 as the minimum wage, job safety, retirement benefits, providing of compassionate employment besides payment of Rs.15 lakh ex-gratia to the families of those died in accidents and also due to ill health.
They also demanded sanctioning of service scales based on seniority.
AITUC District General Secretary Thokala Prasad, Union Godavari district President Vanacharla Veerabhadra Rao and General Secretary addressed the protesters calling upon them to be ready for intensifying the agitation if the government failed to concede their demands.
Later, they called on the DMHO in a delegation and presented a memorandum listing out their demands.
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