JNIMS security staff stage protest
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, January 11 2022:
Demanding release of pending salary for one year, staff members of Eastern Security Service (ESS) deployed at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) for providing security of the government medical institute staged protest in front of JNIMS main gate on Tuesday.
The protest was staged with a huge banner inscribed with slogans demanding release of one year's salary from January, 2021.According to one of the protesting ESS members named Leishangthem Chanchankumari, all security staffers at JNIMS belong to ESS but the security agency did not pay salary for the entire staff deployed at JNIMS since January, 2021 .
The matter had been apprised to JNIMS authority including the past and present director as well as to the medical superintendent but there has been no positive response.
She also said that fresh tender has been floated for requisition of new security even as present security staff are yet to get salary for one year.
She then appealed to government and JNIMS authorities to take up immediate steps for releasing the pending salary.