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| MS GMCH holding post in violation of norms; Eligible overlooked | | | G S Asgotra
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 17: Blue eyed and ineligible have been deputed as medical superintendents in the associated hospitals of the GMC&H Jammu, ignoring the eligible and violating the norms.
Source in the department said that the incumbent Medical Superintendent Dr. Romesh Gupta and his two predecessors Dr. Harbans Sharma and Dr. Ravinder Rattan Pal who recently got superannuated, were not eligible for the post of Medical Superintendent in GMC&H.
"They have still not been confirmed by the Public Service Commission (PSC) after getting Master degree in Hospital Administration (MHA) and did not have required three years experiences of running a hospital. Further they were not in the cadre of Chief Medical Officers when they got transferred in Medical Education Department from Health Department", said a senior doctor.
As per norms, the qualification and method of recruitment for the post of Deputy Medical Superintendent in Jammu and Kashmir Medical Education Services Recruitment sanctioned vice SRO number 517 dated 19/9/1979 is by direct recruitment or by deputation from Chief Medical Officer (CMOs) cadre of J&K Medical Services, but the candidate must have experience of three years of running a hospital after post-graduation.
An eligible aspirant for post of Medical Superintendent said that all of them made request for regularization of their services as Dy. Medical Superintendent in the Medical Education Department on the analogy of Dr Jasbir Singh and Dr. Rakesh Khajuria, w.e.f the date they were appointed as Dy Medical Superintendents.
"Ironically, their prayer was not acceded to by the department. Thereafter, they had knocked the door of the High Court by filing SWP No. 1480/1998 but their petition was disposed off", he said wishing anonymity.
The court directed the official respondents to consider the claim of the petitioners for regularization, if they satisfied the eligibility criteria as per relevant rules. "The department will subject to the above thereafter consider promotion to the post of Chief Medical Officers as per rules as may be applicable. The petitioners, can thereafter be considered for appropriate post ", the Court order SWP No 619/2003, MP Number 603/2003 read.
Pertinently, the three Medical Superintendents including two superannuated and incumbent MS were appointed as Assistant Surgeons in Health department and were doing Master degree in Hospital Administration (MHA) in December, 1990, July 1992 and December 1992 and holding chairs of Dy. MS and Medical Superintendent in GMC&H Jammu in violation of set norms of Medical Education Services Recruitment Rules sanctioned vice SRO No 517 of 1979.
The court order further reads as "If the petitioners are entitled for regularisation in the health department and are to be promoted as CMOs first, their cases should be considered at the threshold. Thereafter the question of deputation can be addressed. As such the petitioners are neither here nor there. The anomaly should be removed by the government."
Though, the high court has time and again directed the successive governments to strictly follow the laid down procedures of appointment and set norms of General Administration Department, while appointing the health administrators of any institution either on deputation or through direct recruitment but every time rules were either tailored or bypassed only for benefit of blue-eyed . |
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