Senior Vets association decries double standards of Punjab Government

Senior Vets association decries double standards of Punjab Government

Nabaz-e-Punjab, Ludhiana, July 7:
Senior Vets Association, in a meeting held here today, flayed the state government for issuing pay commission implementation notification on 5th July , without any amendments, which the Joint coordination committee of medical, veterinary, dental, Ayurvedic and homoeopathic government doctors had been requesting and protesting.
Dr Gurinder Singh Walia former Joint Director Animal Husbandry & member Punjab State Veterinary Council lamented that when the government had constituted an ‘oversight committee of Ministers’ to look into genuine demands of the government Veterinary, Medical, dental, Ayurvedic and homoeopathic doctors and other employees , who are agitated due to the stepmotherly treatment meted out to them by the implementation of 6th Punjab Pay Commission report, its notification at this stage was an unfortunate
step and was evidence of double standards or showed department of finance and the government were not on same page
He said, it was disgusting that medical and veterinary doctors who have been at the forefront during the ongoing pandemic to mitigate the sufferings of the people and livestock had been forced to agitate due to
illtreatment of the government.
Speaking on the occasion , Dr Nitin Kumar, former Chief Executive Officer of Punjab Gau Sewa Commission quipped that with the prices of petrol, diesel and other essential commodities touching the roof, the government employees had been eagerly awaiting hike in salaries after a decade, but all their hopes had dashed to the ground, especially in case of Vets and medicos as NPA had been slashed from 25 to 20 percent and also delinked to be part of salary.
He stressed that the privilege of NPA had been granted to medicos and Vets by previous pay commissions, keeping in view long period of study, late entry to service and arduous job conditions
for the past many years.