JNIMS senior residents stage sit-in
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 22 2018:
In protest against the JNIMS Service Rules that restricted the senior residents from promoting further to the higher ranks/posts as well as the JNIMS authority's plan to conduct DPC for recruiting fresh Associate Professors of the institute, senior residents of JNIMS staged a sit-in at the premises of the institute yesterday.
They have been taking mass casual leave, and demanding ratification of the service rules to allow/accept line of promotion for the senior residents who were recruited as regular posts since the establishment of the institute in 2009.Earlier, the doctors had put on black badges demonstrating their protest while performing their duties.
Speaking on the sideline of the protest yesterday, senior resident of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department, JNIMS, T Nimmi informed that many doctors were inducted as regular senior residents when JNIMS was set up from JN Hospital.
Senior residents, numbering about 80 have no room for promotion to the higher ranks as the service rules of the institute have no appropriate rule for the same, she said.
Decrying the anomaly/ambiguity in the service rules, she demanded that the said service rules be ratified at the earliest and promote the "deserving" senior residents to the posts of Assistant Professors.
Nimmi, who is also the joint secretary of the teachers' association also demanded the authorities concerned of JNIMS to revoke the proposed DPC for recruitment of Associate Professors of the institute while maintaining that the "unfair conduct" will never be accepted by the senior residents.
Lamenting that the 77 senior residents will be retired in the same status, she informed that 17 posts for Assistant Professors were called in the past and freshers with much "lesser" experience were selected by sidelining the more eligible and qualified senior residents from Dental Department who applied for the same posts.
As of now, there are 77 regular senior resident doctors in JNIMS.
35 are eligible for the post of Assistant Professors under the Medical Council of India guideline, she added.