The Punjab Civil Medical Services (PCMS) doctors have decided to hold a protest in Chandigarh on December 9 against the non-implementation of their nine demands, which were accepted by the government in a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on November 5.
Notably, the demands include raising of retirement age of the PCMS doctors equal to their colleagues working in medical colleges, cadre review, which includes creation of specialist cadre on the pattern of the Central government, re-fixation of pay by calculating the NPA on Dearness Pay (DP), restoration of the status of civil surgeon at par with district judge and deputy commissioner, creation of post of Director General of Health Services and designation of administrative SMOs as Deputy Civil Surgeons among others.
Talking to the Tribune, Dr MS Randhawa, patron, and Dr Manjit Singh, general secretary of the PCMSA, said the decision to this effect had been taken in an emergency meeting of the association against backtracking by the government.
