Itanagar, Sep 6: The Arunachal Pradesh government has absorbed more than 300 doctors and other medical staff, who were working under National Health Mission (NHM), in its health department, state minister Alo Libang told the Assembly on Tuesday.
He was responding to a zero hour discussion, on question raised by Pasighat West MLA Ninong Ering on Regularisation of NHM staff stating that the NHM staff including doctors, nurses and lab technicians work in far flung areas, because of which they
lose their prime age and also miss out on job advertisements. Ering suggested that there has to be a
provision either in State Public Commission or Staff Selection Board to regularize NHM staffers.
Health Minister Alo Libang, while supporting the statement, however justified that since NHM is a centrally funded scheme, there would be huge financial implications for the state if the state government takes over and regularizes all the staffers at one go.
 Informing that till now around 300 NHM technical staff have been regularized, he said further regularization will be done in a phased manner.
He also informed that the state government is also looking into the provision of transfer and posting for NHM staff as currently all the contractual jobs are non-transferrable.
Libang explained that the state government was serious about absorbing NHM staff in the health department as the Centre, too, wanted such doctors and medical employees to be regularised in states.
He noted that many doctors of NHM have crossed the age limit to apply for a government job.
"As many as 935 non-technical persons, who are working under NHM, a centrally sponsored scheme, would be regularised in the long run," the minister said.
Earlier, initiating the discussion, Congress MLA Ninong Ering requested the government to reserve 50 per cent jobs for NHM doctors and other medical staff in the competitive examinations conducted by Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) and Staff Selection Board (SSB).
The lawmaker also urged the government to find ways to absorb the NHM officials. 

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