SHIMLA: Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu chaired a workshop at Indira Gandhi Medical College Shimla organised on the occasion of International Women’s Day, where women who had performed outstanding work were honoured. During the event, the Chief Minister announced that staff nurses pursuing higher education would now receive their full salary instead of the earlier 40 percent. He also said that the recruitment process for 80 Assistant Professors in the Medical Education Department would begin next month and added that the health sector in the state would see major improvements within a year with more employment opportunities being created.
The Chief Minister said that the government was introducing reforms and high-end technology in the health sector, including the installation of robotic surgery systems and advanced MRI machines in all medical colleges across the state. He added that the government intends to end outsourcing in jobs as it often leads to exploitation of young people. To ensure employment opportunities, new posts of Assistant Staff Nurses would be created along with regular Staff Nurse positions, and recruitment of nurses was also being carried out batch-wise.
Sukhu also highlighted that women were making remarkable progress in every field and noted that 57.5 percent of elected representatives in Panchayati Raj institutions in Himachal Pradesh were women. He further raised concerns over the discontinuation of the Revenue Deficit Grant by the Finance Commission of India, saying the state depended largely on water resources and forests and had limited industrial benefits. On the occasion, he also announced a grant of Rs. 5 lakh for the Nursing Scholar Society.
