India, Nov. 4 -- Hundreds of National Health Mission (NHM) employees began a three-day work abstention and sit-in strike on Monday outside the Joint Director of Health Services office in Dibrugarh, demanding implementation of long-pending government promises. The protest, jointly organised by the Dibrugarh District Health and Technical Welfare Association (NHM) and the National Health Mission Employees' Association, has brought divisional health operations in the district to a virtual halt.

The striking employees are pressing for five critical demands, principally the implementation of a pay scale system ensuring 'Equal Pay for Equal Work and Equal Rights' in line with a 2013 Supreme Court verdict. They are also seeking full implementati...