Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 2: Central Administrative Tribunal, Jammu Bench comprising Rajinder Singh Dogra (Member Judicial) and Ram Mohan Johri (Member Administrative) today directed the Health & Medical Education Department to consider and decide the cases of the doctors, who were engaged during the Covid-19, for regularization of their services if they are squarely covered by the Judgment passed by the High Court of Madras in case titled “Dr R Venkattaraman Vs State” dated 09.11.2022 and then release the unpaid salary to the applicants within a period of eight weeks.
Following outbreak of Covid-19, the NITI Aayog initiated series of measures to augment the availability of Medical Professionals as the Government battled to find ways to cope with the situation.
The Mission Director, NHM, J&K, on receipt of list of 378 volunteers (Doctors) on NITI Portal for providing services, as and when needed due to Covid-19 Pandemic forwarded the same to the Director Health Services, Jammu/Kashmir on April 10, 2020, wherein, the names of the applicants existed at Serial Nos. 3 & 4 (District Ramban).
Both the applicant – doctors, in their Original Application, pleaded to be working as Dental Surgeons in District Ramban, after having been engaged as volunteer (Doctors) for Covid-19 regularly and without any hindrance/ obstructions. However, they were denied of their right to claim regularization of their services.
The applicants, through Advocate Dinesh Singh Chauhan sought regularization of their services as Dental Surgeons in Health & Medical Education Department (District Ramban), in pursuance to the Judgment dated April 30, 2022 passed by Supreme Court in ‘Suo Motu Writ Petition (Civil) No. 3 of 2021 in ‘Re; Distribution of Essential Supplies and Services During Pandemic’ and the Central Government Notification dated May 03, 2021. The State-Respondents were represented through Sudesh Magotra, AAG.
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