Kochi: The junior residents on contract at Idukki Government Medical College are angry and upset as they are yet to get Rs 45,000 monthly salary promised by the government.
They get only Rs 35,000 now, and when their enquiries reached the portals of Secretariat, those who sleep over the file demanded their 'due' in a subtle manner which has made the doctors angry.
Set up four years ago, the Idukki medical college is now left with only two junior residents since four of them left the job recently with the government failing to keep its promise on salary. They are upset because the junior residents on contract at the fledgeling Parippally ESI Government Medical College in Kollam are paid Rs 45,000.
"The office staff at Idukki Medical College told us that they are unable to trace the order sanctioning us Rs 45,000 as salary and hence they can give only Rs 35,000 as sanctioned in the previous order. They asked us to get a fresh order from the office of the Director of Medical Education, and from there we were directed to the portals of one of the Annexes of the Secretariat to secure the order. But the officials there are in no mood to move the file unless we offer them kickbacks which they asked subtly. In disgust, I quit the job," said one former resident.
