The Indian Express ·
‘Best doctor in the world’: MP High Court upholds equal pay benefits for veterinarians
The court was hearing a petition seeking equal benefits for veterinarians under the time-scale pay on par with dental surgeons and medical officers.
Calling veterinary doctors the world’s best physicians while quoting American humourist Will Rogers, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has upheld a ruling granting veterinary surgeons equal time-scale pay benefits on par with medical officers in human healthcare.
Time-scale pay is a salary system where an employee’s pay starts at a set minimum amount and automatically increases by regular, scheduled amounts (called increments) over time until it reaches a set maximum limit.
Dismissing the state’s plea, a bench of Justices Anand Pathak and B P Sharma said veterinary doctors have to go to the remotest of areas with adverse terrain and weather, to treat patients who can’t speak, and ruled that veterinarians perform demanding, highly skilled work treating voiceless animals, making discrimination in their pay progression unjustifiable.
