Pony Admn raises contract doctors salary in GGH

Puducherry, Mar 4 (UNI) The Puducherry administration has enhanced the salary of contract doctors working in the Government General Hospital here.

According to an official release here, the salary of specialist doctors was being enhanced to Rs 24,000 from Rs 20,000 and that of general doctors to Rs 16,000 from Rs 12,000.

The enhancement would be with retrospective effect from January one this year and 16 specialist doctors and 97 general doctors would be benefitted.

The increase in salary would incur an additional expenditure of Rs 9.04 lakh per annum to the exchequer.

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