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| Why SRO 144 is flouted while effecting promotions in GMCs of Jammu and Srinagar? | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 13: It has become routine for the Medical Education Department of the State to observe all rules and regulations in their breach and the latest example is the practice adopted by the department to ignore and completely overlook reservations rules governing promotions in medical colleges of Jammu and Srinagar.
SRO 144 dated 26 May 2008 clearly lays down the rooster for promotion of candidates from open merit, SC/ST/ALC/RBA etc in various departments of the State Government.
According to this laid down directive, the department while effecting promotions to the posts of assistant professors from lecturers in Government medical colleges has to compulsorily reserve for two years the post that falls due to a category candidate if a candidate from such a category is not available at the time of effecting the promotions.
The SRO clearly specifies that in case a category candidate for whom the post is reserved for two years is not available for promotion during this period, the post would be de-reserved and subsequently filled up by selecting a candidate from the open merit.
In order to flout the SRO and overlook it, whenever the medical education department has promoted lecturers to the posts of assistant professors, the department has treated such a promotion as a separate process specific to that year thereby ignoring to carry forward the reserved post to the next promotion process in the event of non-availability of a reserved category candidate.
For example, if there are two posts available for promotion at any point of time, these two posts according to SRO 144 would be filled by promoting open merit candidates. But, when the next promotion is made and two posts are available for promotion in that process, rooster application means those promoted in the previous promotion process, that is two posts those went to the open merit candidates in the last promotion process would be clubbed with this promotion process and rooster applied to make one post available to a reserved category candidate out of a total of four.
Taking the same analogy, if a reserved category candidate is not promoted by applying rooster even in the second promotion process, the natural outcome would be that a category candidate would never be promoted on the benefits accruing to the reserved category candidate under the SRO since in that case all the posts would be filled by promoting open merit candidates only.
This is the spirit and the directive of the SRO 144 governing application of rooster points during promotion process. The Medical Education Department has not done it in the past in case of either medical college Jammu or medical college Srinagar. Insiders told Early Times in order to benefit their blue-eyed favourites the department has chosen to continue the process of ignoring and trashing the directions contained in SRO 144.
Many faculty members and those who would be promoted provided the SRO 144 is followed in letter and spirit have warned that in case their genuine and legitimate rights are again overlooked they would be left with little option other than approach the State High Court for intervention. |
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