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Move to make JIPMER autonomous opposed

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Says the welfare of the poor will be at stake

PODICHERRY: Secretary of Pondicherry State committee of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) A. Anbalagan MLA has charged the Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss with adopting an anti people attitude by his efforts to convert the Centrally administered JIPMER here into an autonomous institution.

Addressing presspersons on Tuesday Mr. Anbalagan said that whenever Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) was part of the Central Government, it had been making the move to disturb the status of JIPMER and was posing threat to the smooth working of the institute. The staff and workers were also forced to launch agitations to protect the institute against conversion. The welfare of the poor patients would also be at stake in the event of conversion, he pointed out. The recent observation by the Union Health Minister at a function in JIPMER that the institute would be made to function on its own was firm proof that the status of JIPMER was going to be disturbed.

(JIPMER is presently under the direct control of Directorate General of Health Services, New Delhi). Mr. Anbalagan said that it was also perplexing that the Congress Government in Pondicherry was a mute spectator to the Central Minister's efforts. The DMK doublespeaks on the issue.

He welcomed the ongoing agitation by the employees and staff of JIPMER and their sustained protest. Mr. Anbalagan said that the AIADMK would intensify its agitation and would associate itself with the employees to retain the status quo of the institute which was now celebrating its golden jubilee. He said the Government was proving its inefficiency in providing problem-free administration. State Government employees were now on strike without break since last two months seeking upward revision of their emoluments. He said that the Government was adopting procedures that were generally opposed to the Centre's parameters. Hence, the present Ministry here should be kept in suspended animation till the Assembly polls were over.

The Government had also constituted a one member panel for "redressal of the anomalies in pay structure". There was no power for the Government to set up the panel and it should be dismantled.

He said the Congress Ministry here was whimsical in taking decisions to tackle employees' grievances without a uniform yardstick.

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