1000's of Community Health Volunteers yet to paid salary of June

                                            

Currently the CHVs are paid RS 300 daily for additional hours of work

Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) working with BMC during these pandemic are yet to get their salary of the month June who live in the Eastern suburbs of the City.

Following the delay, The Mahapalika Arogya Seva Karmachari Sangathna, the union of these volunteers approached Municipal Corporation Iqbal Singh Chahal for help.

The CHVs have been like a backbone for this fight against COVID-19 and without them, thr Civic bodies would have had a hard time to fight. From screening patients, contact tracing of positive cases, quarantining the positive and high infected patients, helping in slums etc all these have been done by them. Despite their crucial role in this fight, they are only paid RS 9000/- per month. Earlier it was 5000/- in April.

The CHVs said that since last two months,they are not getting their salary on time."Till April, we used to receive our salary by the first week of the month. But since the last two months,there is no fixed date and we are paid after the 15th of the month" one of the volunteers said that.

When contracted, Executive Health Official Dr Mangala Gomare said "We will look into the matter".