Junior profs promotion: PGI docs urge Talwar to wait for HC order

Resentment is brewing among senior PGI professors,who have urged Director Prof K K Talwar not to implement the CAT orders vis-a-vis the promotion of Medical Superintendent Dr A K Gupta,till the Punjab and Haryana High Court takes the final decision.

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Resentment is brewing among senior PGI professors,who have urged Director Prof K K Talwar not to implement the CAT orders vis-a-vis the promotion of Medical Superintendent Dr A K Gupta,till the Punjab and Haryana High Court takes the final decision.

In a letter written by the PGI Faculty Association,head professor A Rajwanshi has stated that if Gupta was made a professor with retrospect,as was ordered by the CAT earlier this year,the entire seniority list of the PGI faculty would be disturbed,which would lead to resentment among professors,who have waited much longer to attain professorship.

The association even said if seniority of the faculty was altered after the decision,there could be mass exodus of doctors from the institute.

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There is great resentment among senior people,which is demoralising and might result into mass exodus at some stage or the other, the letter stated. The Health ministry has approved candidature of Dr Gupta,for retrospective promotion as professor since January 9,1996,when his experience was only seven years,bypassing 40 professors senior to him,with 14 to 25 years of experience at the time of appointment as a professor.

The PGI faculty moved the High Court against the order and the case is pending. The ministrys approval came after the CAT ordered in favour of Dr Gupta on February 24 this year. All faculty members have been working at the institute for a longer duration than Dr Gupta. It is totally unjustified, remarked the association.

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