Health workers posted in Trinagar and Gaddachauki did not get risk allowance

Dhangadhi: The Punarwas Municipality of Kanchanpur has deployed eight staff at the Trinagar-Gauriphanta checkpoint to collect data of Nepalis returning from India and test the corona. Employees including health assistants and statistics assistants have been providing services at daily risk.

But they have not received the risk allowance. Ram Bahadur Bogati, a statistician posted at the Trinagar-Gauriphanta border area, said that the municipality did not provide rehabilitation to the employees even though the municipality had promised to provide risk allowance to the service personnel.

He said the coronavirus was being tested and controlled. But we haven't got it. I was told to pay half of my salary. ' Health workers deployed at Gauriphanta and Gaddachauki on the western border to control the coronavirus have complained that they have not yet received the risk allowance.

The health workers have not been given risk allowance saying that the Punarwas municipality lacks a budget. Chief administrative officer of the municipality Shivraj Bhatta said, "Some employees have been given. Some did not even get it. I do not know the amount paid. But not everyone has the money. ' During the first and second waves of the coronavirus, thousands of Nepalis returned home.

Local health workers were at the forefront of their data collection and testing for the coronavirus. However, the staff assigned by the Punarwas and Bhim Dutta Municipality did not receive the risk allowance. Hari Bahadur Chand, chief administrative officer of Bhimdatta Municipality, said that some of them did not receive a single rupee as they were told to pay half of their salary. He said, "But Bhim Dutt Municipality did not give it. I don't know why. '

The Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan Municipality has distributed risk allowance to the health workers deployed in the Trinagar-Gauriphanta border area. They are still deployed in the border area.