TN govt issues appointment orders to 831 contract nurses, completes regularisation of 1,000 | Chennai News

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu govt today issued appointment orders to 831 contract nurses recruited through the Medical Services Recruitment Board (MRB), completing the regularisation of 1,000 nurses announced following protests by contract nurses in December 2025. The orders were issued at an event held at Dr MGR Medical University. This follows the regularisation of 169 nurses on December 26 last year.Health and Family Welfare minister Ma Subramanian said the appointment orders could be considered “Pongal gifts” and added that 724 nurses who served as frontline workers during the pandemic would also be issued appointment orders by the end of this month.“While the govt before us, from 2014 to 2021, regularised only about 1,600 nurses in total, since 2021 alone we regularised 5,825 nurses,” the minister said.He added that the govt would look to regularise 5,932 more nurses in phases in the coming term if it is voted back in.On salary revisions, the minister said the monthly salary for nearly 1,500 Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) part-time workers in primary health centres would be increased from 1,500 to 5,000.He also said a few contract nurses were left out of the earlier salary hike, from 14,000 to 18,000, due to technical glitches and would now receive the revised pay.