₹12,300 /Month to MBBS Interns:
MATTER OF COLLECTIVE SHAME
It's a matter of collective shame for all successive Governments, including the incumbent Government, in Jammu and Kashmir that the MBBS/BDS interns, performing more duties than the regulars taking ₹2 lakhs/month plus many lakhs in private practice, are paid a paltry stipend of ₹12,300. They have been demanding ₹30,000 which has not been granted by any Government since 2019. Similarly, PGs and PhDs engaged as Technical Assistants, in some other departments 10-15 years back, are paid peanuts of ₹20,000/month.
Contrarily, their regular class-4 subordinates mostly holding real and fake 8th pass certificates [orderlines/peons/chowkidars] take home ₹50,000, some even ₹70,000.
We know that many of these stipendiaries and "need-based" youths remain ineligible for marital lives and a part of their earnings goes in their antidepressants. We can only express our solidarity and sympathies with these poor victims of perpetual exploitation and injustice by successive Governments as we have no hope of anybody listening to them and doing justice to them. But we have an unflinching faith in Almighty's natural justice. God, for sure, will be merciless to every single bureaucrat and politician who chooses to remain blind and merciless to these young men and women.