With the Director of Medical Education's tenure to
end this month, the government's move to give extension for another two more
years has led to wide criticism, with many see it as a prelude to the government's
attempt to increase the retirement age of teachers in the Medical Education
Service.
It is also alleged that the government that shows
much enthusiasm in giving extension to the existing higher officials, it has
not shown interest in making any new recruitment. Already a list of doctors, of
which 900 have specialty qualification, is pending and is alleged that the PSC
was ready to fill the posts within two weeks if the Directorate of Medical
Education had notified the posts.
Pressure is alleged be mounting on
the government as well as the health department for extending the period of the
DME. However, sources said that if the extension was given, it would only
create an unnecessary precedence. The move is also seen as a prelude to the government's
intention to increase the retirement age in the Medical Education Service to
62.
Meanwhile Kerala Government Medical
College Teachers Association (KGMCTA), which has always stood against
increasing the pension age, said that they vehemently opposed any such move.
''The Association opposes the retirement age or extension of service of any
individual or in general,'' KGMCTA general secretary Dr C P Vijayan said. Moreover, he also
pointed out that the seven long years of the present DME was not fruitful.
However, officials in the health department said
that there was no such pressure for extending the DME's tenure. They said that
the DME can continue till the end of the academic year. But it is said that
there was no superannuation as the post was only an administrative one and not
academic.
Source< The New Indian Express
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