The Hindu : New Delhi News : Doctors flay UPA Govt. for `dual policy'

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Wednesday, Jul 19, 2006

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Doctors flay UPA Govt. for `dual policy'

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Medicos Forum for Equal Opportunities has criticised the United Progressive Alliance Government's "dual policy" on the issue of payment of salaries of doctors for the period they were on strike during the anti-reservation agitation recently.

"The Government took one stand outside the court and quite the opposite inside it," said Forum convenor Vikas Bajpai in a statement.

"Medicos Forum would have welcomed the relief given to doctors had the same been done by declaring that "no work no pay" cannot be upheld as a principle and that deduction of salary for the strike period is a punitive measure," he said. "There were no peculiar circumstances in this case, except that it involved the interests of those doctors who had stood against reservations. The assurance that there shall be no victimisation is invariably a part of all the agreements that the Government enters into with the employees for resolving various agitations and yet the salaries are deducted."

Dr. Bajpai said the Government was bent upon rendering the reservations for Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes in fractious and rewarding the doctors who went on strike against reservations. "Till date these very doctors continue to humiliate and discriminate against their own colleagues belonging to the reserved categories," he alleged.

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