DW BUREAU / PATIALA Doctors working in Government Medical and Dental Colleges in Patiala and Amritsar have out rightly rejected the Sixth Punjab Pay Commission report relating to the medical and dental faculty passed by the state government "which has resulted in huge financial loss to them in the present form" and the doctors have categorically decided to oppose it tooth and nail. According to Dr DS Bhullar, General Secretary of Punjab State Medical and Dental Teachers Association, the cabinet decision on pay commission report will result in drastic cut in the salaries of medical and dental teachers instead of any financial benefits as the non-practice allowance (NPA) has been decreased from 25 to 20 percent and delinked from the basic pay for the first time in the history of Punjab pay commissions. NPA is part of the basic pay and considered as pay for calculation of other allowances including dearness and house rent allowances. Even the Supreme Court has upheld the decision of the Tribunal and the High Court, by holding that 25 percent of the pay as NPA would mean 25 percent of the basic pay inclusive of the benefits and that the doctors were entitled to non-practising allowance (NPA) linked to their pay i.e. 25 percent of their basic pay. The executive body of the Punjab and Patiala Unit of Punjab State Medical and Dental Teachers Association in its emergency meeting held here yesterday decided to oppose any such financial loss to the faculty and has urged Chief Minister Capt Amrinder Singh to personally intervene to undo injustice to the medical and dental teachers and fix the new pay of the government doctors by applying the 2.57 formula as in case of employees of all other cadres under Punjab government. (editor@dailyworld.in)