EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 2015 CUTTACK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019 /KARTIKA 8, 1941

HOME (SPECIAL SECTION) DEPARTMENT

OFFICE ORDER

The 26th October, 2019

No. 2564-HOME-SPL.3-ESMA-0001/2014/C.—Whereas, the State Government are

satisfied that in the interest of Public, it is necessary to prohibit strikes in the form of

cessation of work by the Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, Technicians, other class-III and

class-IV employees etc. including contractual employees in services/engagements

connected with maintenance of medical services in the Government Hospitals and

Dispensaries in the State like District Headquarters Hospitals, Subdivisional Hospitals,

Area Hospitals, Community Health Centres, Primary Health Centres, Municipality

Hospitals, ESI Hospitals etc. including Medical Colleges and Hospitals run by Government

and other autonomous Health Institutions receiving Grant-in-Aid from State Government

Specifically AHRCC, Regional Spinal Injury Centre including Jail Hospitals, Police

Hospitals etc. so that health care delivery system in the State is not affected/disrupted;

And, whereas, as per Section 2 (b) of the Odisha Essential Services (Maintenance)

Act 1988, strike means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed / engaged in

any essential service acting in combination or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a

common understanding of any number of persons who are or have been so employed /

engaged to continue to work or to accept employment and includes unauthorized absence

from duty in pursuance of a common understanding among the persons who

unauthorizedly absent themselves from duty or under the direction of any other person or

persons.

Now, therefore, in exercise of the power conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 3

read with Section 2 of the Odisha Essential Services (Maintenance Act) 1988 (Odisha Act

9 of 1992), the State Government do hereby prohibit strikes in the aforesaid services. The

order shall remain in force for a period of six months with effect from the date of issue.

By Order of the Governor

S. BALA

Special Secretary to Government

Printed and published by the Director, Printing, Stationery and Publication, Odisha, Cuttack-10

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