Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association has appealed to the new UDF government to intervene urgently to redress the long-standing grievance of medical college faculty by allowing them the rightful salary arrears for the period from January 2016 to September 2020.
In a statement here, KGMCTA drew the attention of the government and the public towards the statement by the former Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal that a treasury balance of ₹6,000 crore was available at the time of his departure from office.
It said that if this statement is true, it has deepened the distress and anguish of the fraternity that they were lied to and denied the pay revision arrears that was legitimately due to them.
While government employees in all other categories received their salary arrears in full, medical college doctors alone were subjected to discriminatory treatment and denied benefits they were legally entitled to.
KGMCTA said that after the doctors were compelled to go on a prolonged agitation, which had involved suspension of OPs and surgeries, they were asked to call off the agitation following an assurance from the former government that their pending arrears would be settled
A file approving the payment of salary arrears to medical college doctors — cleared by the Secretaries of the Finance, Health, and Law Departments — had been submitted to the former government, well before the Model Code of Conduct came into effect, yet the former Finance Minister did not keep his word, KGMCTA said in the statement.
The pay arrears due to medical college doctors would have come to ₹410 crore and the former Finance Minister denied this stating the unfavourable treasury situation, the KGMCTA said.
KGMCTA added that it had high hopes that the new government, which had taken a favourable position in the case of other categories of employees who had been denied their due, would consider the long-pending demand of doctors and settle the issue of pay revision arrears
Published – June 06, 2026 08:39 pm IST
