Ludhiana, Dec. 4 -- The National Health Mission (NHM) staff across the district staged a demonstration outside the Civil Surgeon's office here on Wednesday to protest the delay in salaries for the last two months.

The workers, who are on a pen-down strike since December 2, claimed that they haven't received salaries since October.

"We haven't received our salaries since October. It is December already. Without salaries, how are we expected to survive?" lamented Amarinder Singh, a clerk at the civil hospital under the NHM.

"Yesterday, we staged demonstrations at our own hospitals. Today we had a demonstration plan on the district level. Tomorrow we will reach the NHM office in Sector 38, Chandigarh. We are already on a pen-down strike. ...