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Shiv Sena activists target Tata hospital in Bombay

Activists of the Sthanik Lokadhikar Samiti, a unit of Shiv Sena fighting for the rights of the locals, held a demonstration outside Tata Memorial Hospital at Parel, Bombay on Monday demanding jobs for Maharashtrians.

The demonstaration was led by Mumbai south-central MP Mohan Rawale. They were demanding that 80 per cent recruitment of nurses should go to Maharashtrians. The hospital plans to recruit 49 nurses and 11 of them immediately.

Rawale said Maharashtrains have been ignored in the recruitment process of the hospital. He said that 1,756 applications for nurses were received out of which 1,000 were that of Maharashtrians. The criteria was two years experience and 60 per cent marks. After scrutiny 256 were called for interview, 84 of them Maharashtrians.

Rawale and other office bearers of the SLS met hospital dean K Dinshaw and asked her that more Maharashtrians should be recruited. ''If institutions in Maharashtra, do not give proirity to locals where do they go,'' he asked. Dr Dinshaw assured demonstrators that the recruitment process would be referred back to the management, Rawale added.

She also told them that the grade three and four posts would be done from the employment exchange.

UNI

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