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| No end in sight for unemployed Dental Surgeons in JK UT | | 12 years on, aggrieved graduate doctors waiting for notification of posts | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 16: There seems no end to the long wait of the unemployed Dental Surgeons, who had been sitting idle for the years and waiting for the notification of posts in Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory which had not been published since 2008. Sources told Early Times that it has been 12 years since the government has failed to advertise even a single post of dental surgeons in J&K UT, leaving thousands of trained dentists unemployed. Moreover there is a large area particularly of rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir which have been deprived of dental facilities. They further informed that last time the posts of dental surgeons in the Health Department were advertised nearly 12 years ago and since then not a single post has been advertised leaving thousands of dental surgeons hopeless and jobless. “As per information there are around 5000 dental surgeons registered in J&K UT and out of these about 3200 are unemployed and every year more than 300 new BDS are piling this heap of unemployment,” they alleged.
They further disclosed that there are about 550 posts of dentists in Health Department but still a large population particularly in rural areas, which have no dental health service even after so many years despite launch of many health schemes.
Although the unemployed dental surgeons had held a series of protests in support of their demand of absorption in the Health Department and had handed over memorandum to the then Government but till date nothing was done, they said.
"Two years ago, the issue was put before the Governor who directed the concerned department to find out a way to absorb unemployed BDS after which a proposal for creation of posts of dental surgeons was made by the concerned department but again nothing was done to mitigate the grievances of these qualified professionals,” they said. |
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