This story is from January 28, 2015

NRHM agitators seek PM intervention

Ranchi: The deposed contractual multipurpose health workers (MPW) of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)’s Jharkhand chapter have sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to meet their demand of being reinstated. The MPWs on Tuesday wrote to Modi requesting him to take up their case with the state government as it awaits the chief minister’s nod.
NRHM agitators seek PM intervention
Ranchi: The deposed contractual multipurpose health workers (MPW) of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)’s Jharkhand chapter have sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to meet their demand of being reinstated. The MPWs on Tuesday wrote to Modi requesting him to take up their case with the state government as it awaits the chief minister’s nod.
“Despite our pleas and protests, the state government has refused to budge.
On the other hand, the families of the jobless are living empty stomach since September,” said Rahul Pratap Singh, president of Jharkhand Rajya NRHM Anubandhit Karmachari Sangh (JRNRHMAKS), on Tuesday. “We will also write to the President and ask for his help,” Singh said. The move comes days after protestors, 11 MPWs who are sitting on an indefinite hunger strike at Birsa Chowk since January 17 threatened to commit self-immolation on January 29.
On Republic Day, MPWs from across Jharkhand had organized a ‘begging programme’ at Birsa Chowk and reached out to commuters and passersby for help to depict their woes. A total of 1,892 MPWs were shown the door in September last year after their three-year contracts had ended.
The state health department under the erstwhile Hemant Soren government had handed fresh contracts with revised compensations to the Sahiyas in October last year. The case of MPWs is currently under consideration by chief minister Raghubar Das. However, the repeated agitations have irked health officials who are considering of scrapping the file pertaining to the reinstatement of MPWs.
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