Chandigarh, May 20 -- Nearly ten months after Union minister of health and family welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda approved the technical cadre restructuring, over 1,200 technical cadre staff at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) are yet to receive their financial and promotional benefits due to implementation delays.

Technical staff at the PGIMER include all professionals who conduct first and second-line testing. Their duties include conducting complete blood counts, CT scans, MRIs, ECGs, histopathological testing, etc. The technical cadre restructuring is to be implemented retroactively from March 1, 1992, providing benefits to staff working or hired from 1992 onwards.

The governing body, headed by Nadd...