Jun 04 2017 : The Times of India (Chennai)

Follow norms for posting doctors: HC

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Trashing the Tamil Nadu government's bid to conduct transfer-counselling for government doctors who are still to complete post-graduate medical courses and whose results are expected next month, the Madras high court has said they should be the last category to be considered for counselling, after regular medical officers selected through TNPSC and medical services recruitment board.Though the government has a GO dated November 20, 2007 specifying the sequence as per which transfer-counselling should be conducted, the present government, by a circular dated May 24, 2017, sought to allow PG medical students who are yet to complete their PG degree to participate in the transfer posting and counseling.
Assailing the order, secretary of Service Doctors Welfare Association, G Suresh, filed a writ petition. The 2007 GO was reiterated by another GO issued in 2017. However, the May 24, 2017 GO seeks to override both the earlier orders unnecessarily , said the petition, adding that PG students who are yet to complete the course could not occupy the posts allotted to them, if they fail in the final examination.
Concurring with the submissions, Justice T Raja directed the government to follow the earlier guidelines for transfer and promotion and made it clear that only thereafter the PG students who would get their results in July or thereafter should be allowed to take part in counselling.
Now, PG medical students in government service will be allowed to take part in counselling only after medical officers appointed by TNPSC, those appointed temporarily but later cleared the special qualifying examination of TNPSC and medical officers selected by Medical Service Recruitment Board.