New Family Welfare Director in the eye of storm
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 01 2013:
In a clear case of powerful administrators trying to put their near and dear ones at the highest posts of Government departments, the Director of Family Welfare Department has been found to have been appointed through an unrelated order of Gauhati High Court.
One Dr Okram Ibomcha, who assumes the office of Director of Family Welfare Department from today, has been allegedly appointed by surpassing many of his senior colleagues on the basis of an unrelated court order.
According to a highly reliable source, Dr Okram Ibomcha (MHS-Grade 1) was appointed as the Director of Family Welfare by an order issued by Ng Roben, Deputy Director of Department of Personal, Government of Manipur, yesterday.
The order said that Dr Okram Ibomcha has been appointed as the Director of Family Welfare Department following the outcome of the direction of the High Court in Writ Petition (C) Number 58 of 2012 and Writ Petition (C) Number 59 of 2012 .
However, the Writ Petition (C) Number 58 of 2012 is related to the case fought between 18 employees of Social Welfare Department as petitioners and Principal Secretary/Commissioner (Finance) of the Secretariat Finance Department (PIC); Commissioner/Secretary of the Social Welfare Department and the State Government as respondents, over the salary of the employees, the source disclosed.
The source further pointed out that the Writ Petition (C) Number 59 of 2012 is related to another case fought between 72 employees of the Social Welfare Department as petitioners and the Principal Secretary/ Commissioner (Finance) of Secretariat Finance Department (PIC) ; Commissioner/Secretary of the Social Welfare Department and the State Government as respondents.
The two cases are in no way related to appointment of Dr O Ibomcha, who was the Additional Director of Health Services, Manipur as the Director of Family Welfare, Manipur.
As such, the order issued by the State Government for appointment of Director Family Welfare is a clear case of cheating the general public by using an unrelated order of the Court and this also amounts to disrespect of the Court, the source charged.
The source went on to inform that some of the doctors in the Health Department were picked up intentionally and engaged in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and a number of doctors who were much senior to them were made to stay back in the Health Department.
The doctors who were engaged in NRHM were subsequently promoted to higher posts before allowing them to return to their mother department.
Accordingly, the senior doctors who were left in the Health Department raised objection and filed a writ petition in the Gauhati High Court.
Ever since, there has been quite a mess in the Health Department.
Some of the doctors in the Health Services are also not likely to remain silent over the present issue and they are set to drag the issue in the Court, the source added.
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