India, Feb. 17 -- Around 180 super-speciality doctors in the city's municipal peripheral hospitals, working on a contractual basis, have not received any increment in their salaries for the last five years.

Selected in 2020 for the post of DNB Teachers' Grade 1 and 2, these doctors were appointed in various civic-run hospitals from April 2021 on a contractual basis, on a monthly salary of Rs.2 lakh. Their contracts are renewed every six months, with a mandatory one-day break, before an extension is granted.

Dr Rajesh More, working as senior consultant, general surgery, at Shatabdi Hospital, Kandivali, has been serving on an honorary basis in Shatabdi Hospital since 2013. And was appointed on contract in 2021. "In a year, we are allowed ...