Good News: Court allows incentive marks for in-service Pregnant PG medical candidates
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Chennai: The Madras High Court has held that government doctors who availed maternity leave while serving in hilly or rural areas would be entitled for incentive marks awarded to in-service candidates in post-graduate admission.
A division bench comprising justices Huluvadi G Ramesh and M Dhandapani gave the order on the matter referred to it after a single judge differed with the order of another judge on entitlements of candidates who had availed maternity leave.
The petitioners, a group of in-service doctors, challenged a clause in the prospectus for admission to the Post Graduate degree/diploma courses which excluded the period of maternity and earned leave from the period of "continuous service" for awarding incentive marks.
Petitioners submitted that when they were eligible to avail maternity leave and entitled to all maternity benefits and that the leave period will be counted as service for the purpose of pursuing post graduate courses, the same yardstick should be applied for granting incentive marks too.
A division bench comprising justices Huluvadi G Ramesh and M Dhandapani gave the order on the matter referred to it after a single judge differed with the order of another judge on entitlements of candidates who had availed maternity leave.
The petitioners, a group of in-service doctors, challenged a clause in the prospectus for admission to the Post Graduate degree/diploma courses which excluded the period of maternity and earned leave from the period of "continuous service" for awarding incentive marks.
Petitioners submitted that when they were eligible to avail maternity leave and entitled to all maternity benefits and that the leave period will be counted as service for the purpose of pursuing post graduate courses, the same yardstick should be applied for granting incentive marks too.
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