Release Funds to Delhi Civic Body for Paying Resident Doctors in Six Hospitals: HC to AAP Govt
News 18The Delhi High Court on Wednesday told the AAP government to release to the North Delhi Municipal Corporation the funds it requires to pay the stipends of the resident doctors in the six hospitals run by the civic body. The high court asked the Delhi government to release within 15 days an amount of Rs 8 crore, as was done by it earlier, to NrDMC without waiting for completion of paperwork so that the resident doctors can be paid. It further directed the corporation to place before the bench the utilisation certificates indicating that the amount of Rs 8 crore released by the Delhi government earlier, on court orders, were used to pay the resident doctors. In its status report, filed in response to the plea, the corporation has said that salaries upto May of all resident doctors in hospitals run by the civic body have been paid.