DIMAPUR:
The Nagaland In-Service Doctors’ Association (NIDA) has kept in abeyance its decision to go for mass casual leave from March 7 to 9 in protest against the Nagaland government’s indecision on the superannuation age of government doctors in the state.
The association took the decision after receiving due assurance from health and family welfare minister S Pangnyu Phom that he would take up the matter with the government at the earliest.
NIDA president Dr E Phyantsuthung and general secretary Dr Mereninla Senlem, in a release issued on March 6, informed the same.
The association said the minister has also assured to give his best effort to ensure that the state government addressed the matter with urgency.
“Taking due cognizance of the minister’s appeal and having full confidence on his commitment to resolve the longstanding issue, the NIDA, being a matured and responsible organisation, has decided to keep the proposed mass casual leave in abeyance until the issue is resolved within the assured stipulated time,” the release said.
The association earlier said it had scaled down its demand of superannuation age to 62 for all medical doctors, keeping in abeyance its demand of 65 years for clinical doctors.