Friday, September 8, 2017

Fill up 2,500 asst civil surgeon posts: HC

Sep 7, 2017, 01:07 IST

Madurai: The Madurai bench of Madras high court on Wednesday lifted its earlier stay on the Medical Services Recruitment Board's move to fill 2,500 vacancies of assistant civil surgeons in the state and directed it to make the appointments.

Justice T Raja who had granted the stay on a petition filed by A Sagaya Panimalar from Virudunagar said "Stay is vacated and accordingly the respondents are directed to make appointments from the reserve list of qualified candidates, more particularly to meet the urgent need of doctors to face the spread of dengue."

The petitioner had said that the MSRB without following procedure of issuing advertisement and conducting examination commenced the recruitment drive to fill up 2,500 posts of assistant civil surgeon. It had started certificate verification based on the notification issued on November 10, 2016 to fill up 1,223 vacancies including 144 backlog vacancies for the physically challenged people. The MSRB was not supposed to hold recruitment drive, the petitioner said.

She said she was unable to apply for the post on the earlier occasion since, as per the condition given in the 2016 November notification of MSRB, a candidate had to get his/her name registered with the Tamil Nadu Medical Council before the issuance of the notification. Following this, the petitioner was eagerly waiting for fresh notification for filling assistant civil surgeon post. Like her, there were many people to apply for the post of assistant civil surgeon. Hence, she prayed to restrain MSRB from taking further steps to fill the vacancies and direct it to make recruitment following due procedure.


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