AIIMS row over quota promotions
Another row with the doctor’s body at AIIMS was sparked by the decision of the AIIMS governing body to promote over 130 doctors to the post of additional professor and professor.
The doctors’ body asserts that the decision now is unjustified as their appointments were disputed. The opposition to the promotions came from the SC/ST Medical Association which says that the AIIMS governing body had on last Friday approved granting promotions to these 139 doctors “days before the Supreme Court is to announce its verdict on their fate”.
Earlier, the association had moved the apex court challenging appointments of 164 professors in 2003 alleging they were “illegal” as recruitment rules were openly violated. The matter is listed for hearing later this week.
Its been almost a decade, since the association has been protesting against the alleged “illegal” appointments and has moved the courts. Several prominent politicians as well as the parliamentary standing committee on health have also opposed the appointments on the grounds of “caste discrimination” in the premier medical institution. In a letter, the SC/ST Medical Association had urged health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad “to ask the ministry to hold back its decision to provide promotions to these illegal appointees taken on July 19... And allow the matter to be decided by the court on its merit on July 27.”
The letter claimed that AIIMS had advertised 91 backlog posts of professors and additional professors, all reserved for SC/ST/OBCs.
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