Doctors working in Central government represented multiple times before finance & health minister to consider some of their genuine demands to increase Non-Practising allowance or NPA and to calculate it by adding % including House Rent allowance and Basic pay. As NPA is unique for Doctors as they have right to practice but as they do not practice so it is a special privilege to them. Doctors have also demanded to increase HRA or to keep as it was being given beside Night Duty Allowance and Rural Posting and Overworking allowance.
But with the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission coming into force from July 1, 2017, the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister did not agree to such demands. Night allowance was allowed to Nurses and ministerial staffs only with some hike. Doctors demanded Non Practicing Allowance (NPA), at the rate of 25 percent of Basic Pay, is paid to medical…
