JK Govt sits on DPC for GMC Srinagar, pushes for clearance to GMC Jammu

The State Health and Medical Education Department has come under sharp criticism for “deliberately delaying” promotion of faculty members of Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar even as the Department is learnt to have been “pressuring” Public Service Commission (PSC) to undertake the promotion of faculty members of Jammu GMC.
Sources told Kashmir POST that while on one hand the meeting of Department Promotion Committee (DPC) for the GMC Srinagar has been delayed for past three years, on the other hand the administrative Department (H&ME) has been asking the PSC for the past two months to undertake the DPC for GMC Jammu.
“The administrative department’s bizarre excuse is that a team of Medical Council of India (MCI) will be visiting the GMC Jammu for inspection next month. The MCI team will also visit the GMC Srinagar next month for inspection but the department is showing no interests in getting the DPC cleared for Srinagar faculty,” the sources said.
The sources said senior officials from the H&ME Department have been personally visiting the PSC in connection with the DPC for GMC faculty members of Jammu.
To a question the sources said the H&ME Department officials have been “misleading” the PSC with false claims that they were yet to receive the APRs and other required documents of the faculty members of the GMC Srinagar.
“The faculty members of GMC Srinagar have long back completed the required formalities,” the sources said.
The sources said an official in the administrative department who handles the issue was “scuttling” holding of the DPC for faculty members of the GMC Srinagar.
“He even misled the PSC on the issue,” said the sources.
Chairman JK PSC Lateif-u-Zaman Deva said the Commission has received proposal from the H&ME Department about GMC Jammu only.
“We had advised them (Department) to come up with all pending cases including the proposal about GMC Srinagar as well. We don’t know why they are not ready with all the pending cases though we have given them the time,” said the Chairman. “I can’t say why they (Department) want to do it for the GMC Jammu only. On our part we are prepared for clearing all the pending cases.”
Principal GMC Srinagar Dr Kaiser Ahmad said they had submitted the required documents including APRs of the faculty members, whose promotion is due, to the administrative Department more than a year ago.
He said the administrative Department on Monday sought the positing details of the faculty members. “The information will be submitted to the Department in a day or two,” said Dr Kaiser.
A senior official of the H&ME Department said many of the faculty members whose APRs and other information was sent to the administrative department more than two years ago have been deprived of promotion that was due to them.
“It happened owing to laid back approach of the Department to take up their cases,” sources said.
Minister for H&ME Department, Bali Bhagat, and his Commissioner/Secretary didn’t respond to repeated calls from Kashmir POST.