95 I/C CMOs regularized after 9 yrs: Comm/Secy
Gopal Sharma
JAMMU, Apr 14: At least 81 Medical Officers possessing Post Graduation qualification and posted as In-charge Consultants in the Health Department are waiting for their confirmation/regularization on the said post for the past over three years.
Official sources said that against 151 posts kept reserved by the J&K Health and Medical Education department, 81 in service Medical Officers with Post Graduation (PG) qualification in various disciplines were appointed as In-charge Consultants vide Govt order No. 145 –JK(HME) of 2020 on 11-02-2020 by the then Financial Commissioner, Health and Medical Education Department, Atal Dulloo.
This urgency was felt as many posts of specialist doctors, especially in far-flung areas across J&K were lying vacant. The Government wanted to provide immediate relief to the suffering people in remote and far off districts and Sub Divisions.
These Medical Officers were posted immediately after their appointment as In-charge Consultants in their own pay and grade, and asked to join their duty within 15 days, except those who were undergoing Registrar-ship in various Govt Medical Colleges. The newly appointed Consultants under going Registrar-ship were directed to join their respective places of postings immediately after completion of their course.
Sources further said that the Jammu and Kashmir Health and Family Welfare (Gazetted) Service Recruitment Rules 2006 were modified and amended vide SRO-325 of 12-07-2013, where in 60 % posts were kept for direct quota candidates (PGs) while 40 % promotion avenues were kept for the in- service Medical Officers having Post Graduates Degree/ Diploma in respective discipline recognized by Medical Council of India (MCI) with at least two years experience after PG for the posts of Consultants.
Accordingly, the Health and Medical Education Department reserved 151 posts for the in-service candidates/ Medical Officers to be appointed as Consultants in various disciplines from the prescribed quota of 40% in the Health and Medical Education Department. Out of these, 81 MOs were posted as In-charge Consultants.
Sources revealed that these senior doctors are awaiting conduct of their DPC/PSC and confirmation from the last over three years now and also moving from pillar to the post, as a part of their ongoing struggle but only assurances were received by them from the higher authorities.
Some of the aggrieved Medicos who approached ‘Excelsior’ said that they were expecting their regularization shortly after their appointments as promised by Dulloo but he was transferred. Then they approached the then Additional Chief Secretary, In-charge Health & Medical Education Department, Vivek Bhardwaj but he was also transferred outside shortly.
The aggrieved I/C Consultants said that they have now high hopes from the new Commissioner/Secretary, Bhupinder Kumar as they have already forwarded a representation to him seeking justice for them. They said the doctors of this cadre are facing stagnation due to non-conduct of DPC for the last several years and have also sought the intervention of Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha in this regard.
Commissioner/Secretary to Govt, Health and Medical Education Department, Bhupinder Kumar when contacted said that this matter came to his notice recently and he has issued directions to his concerned staff to expedite the process of regularization/ confirmation of the In-charge Consultants of the Health and Medical Education department.
“We have started the process and these departmental promotees will be regularized shortly. We know that no DPC was conducted for the last over three years and it will now be held shortly. We have recently regularized 95 In-charge Chief Medical Officers who were waiting for the last 9 long years for regularisation. Some of them had even retired from the services. They were benefitted with this regularization exercise,” the Commissioner/ Secretary added.
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