Salary only after precaution dose: Indore collector to staffers
01.02.2022
As many as 1,678 police personnel didn’t get their January salary on the last day of the month. They make up the biggest chunk of those being penalised, followed by 1,486 employees of Indore Municipal Corporation, 1,289 personnel of other forces and 742 health employees. Among the others are 354 revenue staffers, 212 from the MP electricity board, 178 panchayat officials, 46 court staff and even 731 private employees.
The collector has ordered that their salary for January will be released only after they submit a copy of their precaution dose certificate. When the Covid vaccination drive started, the Indore administration had identified employees of several departments as frontline workers and they were administered the vaccine in the first phase (alongside healthcare workers), the collector reminded on Monday, adding that they are supposed to take their precaution doses as well. Among the departments he listed are zilla panchayat, municipal corporation, police, security forces like BSF, cooperatives, agriculture and horticulture, apart from the health department.
Instructions had been issued to the treasury earlier to release the salaries of these employees only after they receive their due third dose, Singh said. As per official records, the In- dore treasury releases salaries of around 27,000 government employees of 45 departments. On Saturday, treasury officials compiled data on employees who have missed their precaution dose schedule. And at a review meeting on Monday, the health department said 18,831 eligible employees have received the precaution dose, and10,455 employees are yet to.
The collector has ordered that employees of private hospitals, pathology laboratories and diagnostic centres are also required to get their due precaution dose, or else their salary would be stopped by their employers. Action will be taken against private hospitals and labs if there is any neglect on this count.
TNN
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