By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The Joint Director of Health Services in charge of Shillong Civil Hospital has decided to regularize a total number of 49 Ad hoc and temporary employees which is a clear violation of the Government rules.
“The decision of the Joint Director of Health Services to regularize the Adhoc employees is against the rules and regulations of the Government,” Association of Qualified Candidates, Grade IV-2011, East Khasi Hills vice president Badon Pyrtuh told reporters here on Thursday.
As per the Rules and Functions of the District Selection Committee (DSC) amended on April 1994, Pyrtuh said that direct recruitment to various posts falling within the purview of the DSC are to be made only within the purview of the committee as soon as vacancies occur.
‘If any DSC is not in position to do so, it may be necessary, in the view of public interest, to resort to temporary or Ad hoc basis for which approval of the Cabinet with the views of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (B) department should be obtained before proceeding with such recruitment,” Pyrtuh said while quoting the Rules and Regulations of the DSC said. He said that all the Adhoc and temporary employees should have been terminated as soon as the DSC was available with its merit list of candidates who are qualified for appointment.
Pyrtuh said that he learnt about this regularization of these 49 employees from the East Khasi Hills DSC.
As per the letter of the Joint Director to the DSC secretary on June 28, he said that the joint director furnished the list of the 49 Adhoc and temporary employees who have been regularized even as expressing its regret for not intimating the DSC about this.
As per the RTI documents which the association received from the hospital on June last year, he said that it was surprising to see that the joint director regularized the employees from the date of joining.
While citing an example, he said that as per the RTI, there was one radio therapy attendant who was regularized on the very day he joined on June 6 2007.
“Out of the 49 employees, many of them were regularize within two to three years of being in the service which is illegal,” Pyrtuh said.
While demanding the termination of the service of all the 49 employees who were regularized, he said that in their place, the joint director should appoint the qualified candidates as per the merit list of the DSC.