LUCKNOW, Nov. 8 -- Nurses working under the Uttar Pradesh health department may soon get the option to serve in their home districts, with deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak on Saturday instructing officials to draft a proposal for the move. The directive aims to bring parity with nurses in the UP director general of medical education (DGME), who already enjoy this facility.

While addressing the 18th convention of the Rajkiya Nurses Sangh, Pathak asked director general (medical health) Dr Ratan Pal Singh Suman to prepare and send a detailed proposal on home district postings and the filling of long-pending vacancies at hospitals and the directorate.

"I have received several demands from nurses. Some can be resolved at my level. The di...