RIMS opens promotion line by default
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 17 2011:
Tutors, Demonstrators and Registrars of Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) who were recruited directly to regular posts may now enjoy the possibility of getting promoted to the top post of Director.
A reliable source in RIMS informed that the new possibility of promotion to the post of Director opened up after some Tutors, Demonstrators and Registrars were given time-scale promotion to the post of Assistant Professors and treated as regular posts against recruitment rules.
However, efforts of The Sangai Express to get an explanation from RIMS authority how and why Tutors, Demonstrators and Registrars were given time-scale promotion to the post of Assistant Professors in total contradiction to the recruitment rules proved futile.
According to the recruitment rules, no subordinate official/teacher can be promoted to the post of Assistant Professors.
Professors and Assistant Professors should be appointed through direct recruitment, conveyed the source.
Rather than giving any attention to the time-scale promotion given in total defiance of the recruitment rules, the Union Health Ministry signed and sent back all the documents sent in connection with the time-scale promotion.
Associate Professors may be given time-scale promotion but their posts cannot be treated as regular.
Further, those who were given time-scale promotion cannot be given full-time scale.
However, in RIMS all those who have been given time-scale promotion are being treated as regulars and they have been given full time-scale.
On account of given full-time scale, money collected from different cash counters like OPD, Casualty etc are being utilised in giving salaries to employees.
According to rules, all the money collected from OPD and casualty cash counters should be deposited as corpus fund at UBI RIMS branch.
The corpus fund should be used for purchasing necessary materials for patients of the hospital, added the source.