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Friday, Dec 17, 2004

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Medical college told to pay minimum wages

By Our Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR, DEC. 16. The heat of High Court orders on the payment of minimum wages to contract workers in the Government Medical College and Government General Hospital here appears to have been felt by the college authorities as well as officials of the Medical and Health Department.

According to sources in the medical college, the Principal Secretary of M&H Department has spoken tough to the Medical College Principal on the implementation of minimum wages as per the court direction. The college authorities are learnt to have been directed by the department to write to the third party contractor to implement the minimum wages.

Letter to contractor

Accordingly, the Principal, Y. Mallikarjuna, wrote to the three main functionaries of the third party contractor agency, Times, yesterday directing them to implement the minimum wages as per the court directions to contract workers working on behalf of the agency.

In its orders issued in January this year, the court had made it clear that the college Principal and the third party contractor shall be held responsible if minimum wages were not implemented to contract workers.

Meanwhile, two legislators belonging to the ruling Congress were said to be building pressure on the Government to issue a fresh notification taking in a new set of workers through the new third party contractor, contrary to the court direction of cancelling such a system.

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