Friday, December 3, 2010

Transferred from U’khand, docs wait for posting, salary

As the state faces a serious crunch of doctors, at least eight doctors from Uttarakhand who have been relieved from their postings to join Uttar Pradesh, are running from pillar to post for postings.

Some of them had been without posting for over a year and their salaries have been suspended since. When the state was divided in 2000, the doctors posted in the Uttar Pradesh hills (now in Uttarakhand), in excess of the separate cadre of 1,612 for the region, were to be brought back to Uttar Pradesh in a phased manner. There were 338 such doctors. But in the process of adjustments, it was decided that Uttarakhand will retain 43 of them and send back the remaining 295.

While doctors have been coming from Uttarakhand and joining duty in UP from time to time, the last ten relieved from Uttarakhand over the last one year were not quite so lucky. Three of them, Dr PK Bandil, Dr SK Jain and Dr DS Nabiyal, were relieved from Uttarakhand earlier this year.

Bandil, a level three medical officer, who was an eye surgeon with the District Hospital, Tehri Garhwal, was relieved in December 2009. He joined the Uttar Pradesh services on January 1, 2010. Jain, a joint-director level medical officer who was a surgeon with the district hospital Pauri Garhwal, joined on March 18, 2010. Nabiyal, who was posted in Bageshwar District Hospital as a pediatrician, joined on May 3, 2010. But all three are yet to receive postings as their files are circulating from one department to another. Similar is the case with five others relieved after May.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Transferred-from-U-khand--docs-wait-for-posting--salary/720329/

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