TMC Internees Demand For Pay Hike

82 internees in the hospital demand for pay hike . The strike is being organized  for hike in monthly stipends as the internees of Tripura Medical college (TMC) draw only Rs 12.5 thousand as stipends even as internees of AGMC are given Rs 18 thousand per month. Despite repeated demands the internees have not been able to elicit their demand for higher stipends as par with AGMC.

In a circular issued earlier, the principal of Tripura Medical college TMC Professor Asiruddin Ahmed has urged upon the senior doctors, junior and senior residents and all other staff to maintain the service level in the college as well as in the Dr BRAM hospital in public interest. Those pursuing post-graduate studies have also been instructed to lend extra helping hand to the hospital authority to maintain the service level. In the year 2016 also the TMC internees had to go on strike demand for a hike.

The strike is organized for hike in monthly stipends as the internees of Tripura Medical college (TMC) draw only Rs 12,500 per month, even as the internees of Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) are given Rs 18,000 per month

Many demands were made from different batches of internees didn’t hike their stipends.