Over 5,000 Community Health Officers to march to Bengaluru on September 28

More than 5,000 Community Health Officers (CHOs) working under the National Health Mission (NHM) across Karnataka will take out a padayatra on September 28 and stage an indefinite dharna in Bengaluru, seeking job regularisation and revision of their service conditions.

Announcing the programme at a press conference in Kalaburagi on Thursday, Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI) national general secretary R. Manasayya and Akhila Karnataka State Community Health NHM Contractual Employees Union State president Sumit Gaikwad said the padayatra would begin at Siddaganga Mutt in Tumakuru and culminate at Freedom Park in Bengaluru, where the participants would launch the indefinite dharna.