Indore: Deans of four government medical colleges of Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Rewa have been served with a show-cause notice by the Medical Education Commissioner for the alleged delay in promoting the faculty members of the Super Speciality Hospitals.
Issuing show-cause, the Commissioner has asked the officials to submit a reply within three days explaining why action must not be taken against them under the Sections of Madhya Pradesh Civil Sewa Acharan Niyam 1966.
It was alleged by the faculty members in the Super Speciality Hospitals that their promotions were pending for several months. However, the officials of the Medical Education Department were allegedly not paying any notice to their demands.
Under the existing rules, the assistant professors in Super Speciality Hospitals get promoted to the post of Associate Professor within a time period of two years. On the other hand, Associate Professors must get promoted to the post of Professor after three years.
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Commenting on the matter, a faculty member in SSH, Indore told the Free Press Journal on the condition of anonymity, "Promotion of many of the faculty members has been pending since August, last year but the officials are not taking appropriate steps for the same."
Further, the sources informed the Daily that the Assistant Professors in Rewa Medical College, working with SSH in Rewa had warned the authorities to give mass resignation if their demands for pending promotions were not fulfilled. Thereafter, the orders to promote the faculty members of Rewa were released.
Referring to the issue, the Associate Professors told the Daily, "There are about 50 faculty members in all the four Super Speciality Hospitals and the number of faculty members waiting for their promotion is 12 in SSH, Indore. We have learnt that the department has started processing the promotions and orders are expected to be released in a couple of days."
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