HC bars incentive marks for govt docs in critical care units
Sureshkumar.K@timesgroup.com
Chennai: 18.05.2018
The Madras high court has permitted the state government to go ahead with admission to PG medical courses but made it clear that incentive marks for in-service candidates could notbeextendedtodoctors working in emergency andcritical care units. Though many other states have completed the process well ahead of the SCmandated May 31 deadline, the process remains stuck in Tamil Naduover the government’sdecision to extend incentive marks benefits to doctors serving in emergency and critical careunitsin cities aswell.
“The government is directed to complete the selection process and proceed with the admission as indicated in the schedule for the academic year 2018-19. It is made clear that the weightage(incentive)by wayof additional marks ought not to beextendedtoA3category (doctors working in emergency and criticalcareunits)which, as per theearlier conclusion,is notentitledtosuchbenefit,” ruled a division bench of Justice V Parthiban andJusticePDAudikesavaluon Thursday.
The court also mooted appointmentof a retiredjudgeof the high court to head the expert committee mandated to identify ‘remote’ and‘difficult’ service stations entitled to claim incentive marks for serving government doctors aspiring to join PG medicalcourses.
As per PG medical admission norms, government doctors serving in remote and difficult areas areentitledtoincentive marks, to the maximum of 10% of their PG-NEET marks with30% asceiling.
A batch of pleas moved by a group of in-service candidates assailed the government orders on remote and difficult service areas. Allowing their pleas, a single judge quashed the GOs and directed the government to redocategorisation basedon geographical factors only. Aggrieved, the state filed the present appeal.
Sureshkumar.K@timesgroup.com
Chennai: 18.05.2018
The Madras high court has permitted the state government to go ahead with admission to PG medical courses but made it clear that incentive marks for in-service candidates could notbeextendedtodoctors working in emergency andcritical care units. Though many other states have completed the process well ahead of the SCmandated May 31 deadline, the process remains stuck in Tamil Naduover the government’sdecision to extend incentive marks benefits to doctors serving in emergency and critical careunitsin cities aswell.
“The government is directed to complete the selection process and proceed with the admission as indicated in the schedule for the academic year 2018-19. It is made clear that the weightage(incentive)by wayof additional marks ought not to beextendedtoA3category (doctors working in emergency and criticalcareunits)which, as per theearlier conclusion,is notentitledtosuchbenefit,” ruled a division bench of Justice V Parthiban andJusticePDAudikesavaluon Thursday.
The court also mooted appointmentof a retiredjudgeof the high court to head the expert committee mandated to identify ‘remote’ and‘difficult’ service stations entitled to claim incentive marks for serving government doctors aspiring to join PG medicalcourses.
As per PG medical admission norms, government doctors serving in remote and difficult areas areentitledtoincentive marks, to the maximum of 10% of their PG-NEET marks with30% asceiling.
A batch of pleas moved by a group of in-service candidates assailed the government orders on remote and difficult service areas. Allowing their pleas, a single judge quashed the GOs and directed the government to redocategorisation basedon geographical factors only. Aggrieved, the state filed the present appeal.
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