The excessive court docket's order got here whereas coping with a petition by AAMC workers, who had been employed on a contractual foundation by the earlier Aam Aadmi Occasion authorities, looking for instructions in opposition to their termination and substitute with different contractual workers.
Justice Prateek Jalan disposed of the petition with the path, “Within the occasion the respondents (Delhi authorities) suggest to terminate the petitioners' engagement earlier than March 31, 2026, on the bottom that new manpower has been engaged…, they're directed to present two weeks' discover to the involved… (workers),” the court docket mentioned in its August 6 order.
The court docket handed the same order on Tuesday on a plea by medical doctors, who had been engaged on a contractual foundation to work in AAMCs and their engagement was prolonged sometimes between 2016 to 2015, looking for to restrain the authorities from illegally terminating them.
Within the current case, the petitioners are working as pharmacists, mohalla clinic assistants and multitask staff on a contractual foundation in AAMC beneath the Delhi authorities. They sought instructions in opposition to their termination and substitute with different contractual workers.
Advocate Amar Nath Saini, representing the workers members, submitted that there was a distinction from the case of the medical doctors, as a few of the petitioners have been telephonically instructed to not report back to obligation. The counsel for the Delhi authorities submitted that no determination has been taken by the authorities to dispense with the companies of any of the workers of AAMC. The difficulty comes within the wake of the current determination to part out mohalla clinics in areas the place Ayushman Arogya Mandirs, which additionally provide main healthcare, are being operationalised beneath the brand new BJP authorities.
As of August 2023, 533 mohalla clinics had been operational in Delhi.
Nonetheless, a minimum of seven have already been transformed into Arogya Mandirs beneath the Centre's Ayushman Bharat scheme.
Following a protest on Could 17 by AAMC workers, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta had assured that current paramedical and assist workers can be adjusted inside Arogya Mandirs.
