Nagaland doctors to take mass casual leave over superannuation issue

Dimapur, March 21 (EMN): The Nagaland In-Service Doctors’ Association (NIDA) has decided to go on a three-day mass casual leave from April 18 to the 20th as its first phase of agitation over the failure of the state government to solve the superannuation issue.

The association stated that it had earlier kept its decision to take up a similar agitation from March 7 to the 9th in abeyance after an appeal from the Health minister; however, it has been learnt that the matter wasn’t taken up at the cabinet meeting on March 16.

With no solution in sight and the chief secretary’s one-year deadline to solve the issue expiring on April 17, the NIDA has decided to go on a mass casual leave. In this regard, it has directed all the district representatives to collect the casual leaves of the entire NIDA members in their respective districts and keep ready for submission.

It added that the members would assemble in Kohima on April 21 to discuss the next course of action.