Uttarakhand Govt postpones selections by Medical Services Selection Board

Uttarakhand: Recruitments being made by the Uttarakhand Medical Services Selection Board were postponed on Thursday following complaints of irregularities, according to an official statement.

The postponement follows the orders of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami who had received complaints about the manner in which the selections were being made by the board, the statement issued here said.  

On Thursday, a delegation of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad had met Dhami expressing suspicion of irregularities in the recruitments being made by the board for the ayurvedic and the homeopathic services.  

The delegation demanded a thorough investigation of the selection process of the board. The chief minister ordered the immediate postponement of the selections being made by the board and a thorough investigation of the process followed by it in recruitment.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that with an aim to deal with severe shortage of specialists and super-specialist doctors, the State Health Department of Uttarakhand is planning to introduce new schemes such as offering attractive salaries to specialist doctors to lure them. In some cases, the State Government is hiring doctors on a contractual basis through Uttarakhand Health Systems Development Project and National Health Mission. Recently the State has also introduced an attractive scheme 'You Quote We Pay', under which, specialist doctors are hired through the National Health Mission (NHM). Under this scheme, the doctors get paid up to Rs 4 lakh monthly salary and the minimum salary is Rs 2.5 lakh.

Doctors are hired under the 'You Quote We Pay' scheme on the basis of their merit and experience. According to requirements, the doctors get posted in the medical health education and treatment.