Telangana Government Doctors Association allege fraud

This figure was reached after the TGDA joint action committee took up a marathon scrutiny of the records of AP origin doctors in the wake of the publication of the tentative allocation list by the Kamalanathan panel early this month.

In fact, the role of 'vested interests' was hinted at by none other than Dr M Ramani, director of medical education (DME), Telangana, in a recent official communication with the Telangana government. In her letter to the state government (a copy of which is with TOI), the DME wrote: "There was undue influence by the officer on special duty (OSD) to General Administration Department (GAD) on nodal officer at DME office by sending mails and telephonic calls during the process of uploading, which should have been done free of any pressures (sic)."

"The Kamalanathan committee's tentative allocation list, which dumps nearly 230 AP origin doctors in Telangana, is quite strange as AP has now 1,536 vacancies in its 11 medical colleges as compared to 746 vacancies in Telangana's five government medical colleges," said Dr K Ramesh Reddy, member, medical council of India (MCI). "There is a possibility that the AP medical colleges may lose MCI recognition due to shortage of experienced faculty," he warned.

Meanwhile, the TGDA JAC has lodged a complaint with both the Telangana government and the Kamalanathan committee opposing the continuation of an officer posted in the Telangana DME office.