Join Duty or Submit penalty within 15 days: Uttarakhand Govt's ultimatum for bonded doctors

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These doctors were posted in various medical units of Uttarakhand and had taken admission in three-year post-graduate course and two-year post-graduate diploma. However, even after completing three-year post-graduate course, two-year post-graduate diploma, the security bonds filled at the time of MBBS, which was mentioned in the affidavit given by the students, has not yet been submitted to the Directorate General of Health Services, Uttarakhand.

Therefore, issuing notice to such doctors, the State Health Department mentioned that they "will return to the office within 15 days from the date of publication of this notice."

Those 3-year PG Degree holders/ 2-year PG Diploma holders who will not return to the office of the the Directorate General of Health Services, Uttarakhand, within 15 days of the publication of the notice will be considered to be absent and "Legal action will be initiated against those absentee doctors as per the rules for recovery of bond. The entire responsibility of which will be of the concerned bond holder doctor," the State Health Department warned in the notice issued on May 5.

Such bonded doctors who do not want to serve according to the security bond, can contact the principal of Government Medical College, Srinagar and Government Medical College, Haldwani and they can be freed from bond liabilities by depositing the amount according to the security bond, the notice clarified.