CITU holds protest outside IGMC against sacking of 24 security personnel
Oct 18, 2023
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], October 18 : Members of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) on Wednesday held a strong silent protest outside IGMC Shimla against the firing of 24 security personnel of Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMC).
Along with hundreds of labourers, Renu Thakur, who was fired from her job, along with her two-month-old newborn baby, and her husband Surendra Thakur, who had undergone three operations in the last month, also participated in the protest.
During this period, IGMC employees stopped working. The union has warned that if the fired security personnel and Covid workers do not get justice, the movement will intensify.
CITU State President Vijendra Mehra and District Treasurer Balak Ram said that throwing out two hundred Covid warriors from IGMC is an incident of shame to humanity. He said that firing 24 security personnel is a strangulation of the law of the country.
CITU President also blamed IGMC management and Rainbow Security Agency for a scam.
He said that there is a huge scam in the contracts given to security guards. To take action on this, a letter will be written to the President, Prime Minister, Governor and Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh demanding an investigation. Legal action will be taken against the officials involved in this scam.
Exposing the scam, Mehra stated, "On the basis of 70 marks in Technical Bid Evaluation, the Security Guard Company was not even eligible to apply for the contract as it has zero marks out of 70. It was mandatory for the contract to file income tax return every year from the year 2019, but the company was formed in September 2020, then how did it pay the income tax for the year 2019".
"According to the terms of the contract, it was mandatory for the company to have work experience of more than 100 and a total of 300 security personnel at one place in the five years from 2017 to 2022, but the work experience of the company is not even three years. In this way, let alone getting the contract, the company was not even eligible to participate in the bidding process. This scam will be exposed in public and the door of the Honorable High Court will be approached against it," he said.
CITU warned of taking legal action against the IGMC management.
