Pending Payments to NHM Staff, Outsourced Employees and Sahiyas Must Be Cleared Before Diwali
Ranchi, October 26, 2026: Ajay Kumar Singh, Additional Chief Secretary of the Jharkhand Government’s Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare, has directed districts to accelerate the implementation of the TB-Free India Campaign and upload updated information on the website within 24 hours after making necessary improvements in districts with unsatisfactory performance. He emphasized that financial assistance under the Nikshay Poshan Yojana must be transferred to eligible tuberculosis patients without delay, ensuring that no beneficiary is deprived of the scheme’s benefits. A review meeting was held with Civil Surgeons of all districts, National Health Mission (NHM) officials and officers associated with the campaign.
During the meeting, the Additional Chief Secretary directed officials to ensure the clearance of pending salaries and honorariums of NHM contractual employees, outsourced personnel and Sahiyas before Diwali. He also instructed officials to settle pending payments up to September 30 and complete expenditure and payment-related procedures under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme for the period from April to October 2026. He warned that strict action would be taken against officials and personnel responsible for negligence, including district and block accounts managers. Officials were also directed to complete preparations for processing NHM employees’ salaries through the Human Resource Information System (HRIS) portal and to make arrangements for processing Sahiya payments through the headquarters in the future.
The Additional Chief Secretary also reviewed the status of Mamta Vahan services and the 108 ambulance service. He directed that ambulances which are more than seven years old, have covered over 1.5 lakh kilometres and are no longer fit for operation be declared unserviceable and auctioned according to the prescribed rules. Such vehicles must also be removed from hospital premises. In addition, he instructed all healthcare facilities, from district hospitals to Primary Health Centres (PHCs), to complete painting, necessary repairs, cleaning and removal of overgrown bushes before Diwali. The meeting was attended virtually by NHM Mission Director Shashi Prakash Jha, Director-in-Chief of Health Services Dr. Siddharth Sanyal, Director of Health Services Dr. Prabhat Kumar, Civil Surgeons and other concerned officials from all districts. The Additional Chief Secretary made it clear that negligence in TB elimination efforts, financial assistance to patients, timely staff payments and hospital maintenance would not be tolerated.
