Early Times Report
Jammu, June 30: The Public Service Commission (PSC) has pendency of 184 posts of lecturer since 2008, even as there is acute shortage of lecturers in Government Medical Colleges and Super Specialty Hospitals of the state.
Sources in Health and Medical Education Department informed Early Times that there is pendency with the PSC of 136 vacant posts of the lecturers in the medical colleges and 51 vacant posts of lecturers in the Super Specialty Hospitals.
The government in 2007 forwarded 39 posts of lecturers vide reference letter No: ME-GAZ/139/2002-II, dated 26-06-2007 to PSC in which 38 posts were recruited till date and one post of Anatomy department is still pending with PSC.
17 posts vide reference letter No: ME-GAZ/120/2007, dated 02-12-2008 were referred but till date only 12 were recruited, while five posts including two each in Anatomy and Physiology and one of Microbiology are still pending with PSC. Similarly, three posts one of Clinical Psychologist and two of Epidemiologist were referred in 2008 by government to PSC. All the three posts are pending with PSC. In 2010, government had referred 68 posts in which two posts of Microbiology and one post each in Blood Bank, Chest Diseases, Forensic Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Epidemiologist, Physiology, Paediatrics, Pathology, Dermatology and Psychiatry are still pending with PSC.
In 2011 government had referred 119 posts of lecturers in various discipline in which the PSC recruited 79 while the rest of the posts are still pending with the PSC.
In 2012 and '13, government had referred another 51 posts of lecturers in various disciplines, but the agency has filled 35 posts and the rest are pending.
Last year, government had forwarded another 91 posts of lecturers in various disciplines to the recruitment agency, which has not however started the recruitment process.
PSC Secretary was not available for comment. |
