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The Orissa High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the State Government to file its response to the plea of the contractual nurses for regularising their services.
A division bench of Chief Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice S K Mishra has directed Additional Government Advocate Bikram Nayak to file counter-affidavits within two weeks.
The directions came in response to the petitions filed by the contractual nurses seeking the court’s intervention in the matter as the PIL on the recent nurses’ strike came up for hearing on Wednesday. As many as 38 contractual nurses have filed petitions individually appealing to the court to direct the Government for regularising their services.
Earlier, on July 26, the High Court had intervened and allowed the contractual nurses under the State Government to resume their duties without signing fresh contracts.
The Health and Family Welfare department had pressed for signing of fresh contracts by the nurses considering the break in duty owing to the 10-day-long strike by them.
The nurses had resorted to ceasework and staged dharna and hunger strike in Bhubaneswar, demanding regularisation of their jobs and instituting pay parity between contractual and regular staff nurses.
They had called off their strike on orders of the High Court on the basis of a PIL filed by city-based organisation Legal Support and Social Action (LESSA), which had appealed for declaring the strike illegal and against public interest.
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