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Ramadoss forces 'reservation agenda' on AIIMS, eyes 95 posts

Ramadoss forces 'reservation agenda' on AIIMS, eyes 95 posts

Author: Pioneer News Service
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: November 5, 2008
URL: http://www.dailypioneer.com/132333/Ramadoss-forces-'reservation-agenda'-on-AIIMS-eyes-95-posts.html

Nation's premier hospital of excellence, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), has opened a floodgate of controversy by initiating a special recruitment drive under SC, ST and OBC category that would cover all the 95 posts lying vacant for the past five years.

The move has drawn immediate criticism with the doctors alleging that 'merit' has been sacrificed and claims of general category students overlooked in the appointment process.

According to Health Ministry officials, applications were invited for all the 95 posts ranging from Professors to Assistant Professors as part of the backlog in the SC, ST and OBC category. For the past five years, there was no recruitment in the AIIMS. The Institute invited applications in 2006 and 2007, but the Health Ministry withheld the process. This had led to an unseemly tussle between Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and the then Director P Venugopal.

The Resident Doctors' Association has alleged that the Health Ministry has misinterpreted the 'backlog theory' for political gains. "They (Ministry) have hidden the political agenda during the election year. Ramadoss wants to be champion of reservation by killing the merit. Ministry had misinterpreted the backlog statistics to their advantage by unscientific calculation," alleges Kumar Harsh, president of Resident Doctor's Association of AIIMS.

"What will others in unreserved category do? There was no recruitment for the past five years. How can they put the entire 95 posts under reserved category in a Centre of Excellence like AIIMS. This is an appeasement for cheap political gains by Health Minister," said Harsh.

The Association claimed that the Health Ministry had made unscientific calculation in backlog posts. "They had mingled several streams of departments for their convenience. They mixed clinical and non-clinical into one category. Medical and para-medical posts were also mingled to satisfy their desired pattern in putting all in backlog category. Anyhow they killed the merit," adds Harsh

The last recruitment in AIIMS was conducted in 2003 on a floating recruitment pattern. Till 1983, the recruitments in AIIMS were held purely on merit basis as the institute fell under the category of Centre of Excellence.

The tussle between the Health Minister and the then Director Venugopal started over the policy of adopting reservation in top posts. Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Committee on Health had criticised AIIMS for flouting reservation norms in appointments for the past decades.


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