By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: Taking strong exception over the failure to reply to its show cause notice, the State Government has issued fresh notices to the 28 Government sponsored doctors who failed to return to the State after completion of their studies.
In the fresh show cause notices, the Government sponsored doctors have been directed to refund the bond amount of Rs 10 lakh to the government within this month since they have not responded to the show cause notices served against them twice by the State government in July and October last year.
“About 95 per cent of the sponsored medical students who have not returned to serve in the State were non-locals, ” sources revealed.
Last year the government through the Health and Family Welfare Department had served notices to 109 sponsored doctors seeking explanation as to why they should not refund the bond amount of Rs 10 lakh to the government since they did not return to serve in the State despite completion of their studies.
Only 81 of them responded to the show cause notices but the rest 28 did not send their replies to the government (Contd on P-9)
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(Contd from P-1) till date. The government had served these notices to the 109 sponsored doctors belonging to various batches in between 2000-2001 and 2004-2005 who were pursuing MBBS study under the State quota of seats outside the State.
Most of the sponsored doctors who had responded to the show cause notices cited their inability to come and serve in the state immediately after completing MBBS as they were currently pursuing their post graduate studies and assured the State government that they would return once they have completed their PG studies.
However there are also MBBS students who could not complete the course till date and they had responded to the show cause notices by informing the government that they will return to the State immediately after they passed their MBBS course.
The State government had already increased the bond money from Rs 10 to Rs 25 lakh in 2010 to ensure that students undergoing MBBS studies under the State quota in the near future should come back to the State after they complete their medical studies.