What is govt. doing to fill up posts in Health dept., asks HC
The Hindu
Court also seeks to know what steps were taken to regularise contractual, outsourced employees
Telangana High Court on Wednesday instructed the State government to file an affidavit on the steps taken to fill up nearly 35,000 vacancies in Medical and Health department. Expressing concern over the response of the State government to COVID-19 pandemic situation, a bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy passed the direction to Health Secretary while hearing a batch of PIL pleas connected to COVID-19 issues. The bench also wanted Director of Public Health G. Srinivasa Rao to file an affidavit on a gamut of subjects, including the details of sero surveillance connected to coronavirus conducted by the State government. The bench observed that class IV employees in Medical and Health department (most of whom were reportedly appointed on contractual basis or outsourced) would have rendered committed services if they were regularised. “What steps had the government taken to regularise these contractual or outsourced employees,” the CJ sought to know from Mr. Srinivasa Rao.More Related News
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