In his first order after recovering from Covid-19, CM Rawat asks the health secretary to remove clause of compulsion of Form 16 and experience of at least one year in a 30 bed hospital
Faced with criticism from various quarters, the Uttarakhand government has decided to withdraw the contentious clauses from the recruitment of nurses for the state health services. On the intervention of Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, the state administration has decided to amend the recruitment norms for nurses recruitment. The clause of compulsion of Form 16 and experience of at least one year in a 30 bed hospital would now be removed from the recruitment process. Taking cognizance of the memorandum submitted by the trained nursing graduates, the CM on Tuesday directed the health secretary to make necessary amendments in the recruitment procedure and bring the proposal in next cabinet meeting. He said that the maximum number of trained unemployed should be allowed to appear in the recruitment procedure. Interestingly it was the first order of the CM after recovering from the Covid-19. On Tuesday he was declared negative from the disease and he started disposing files from his New Delhi residence.
The Uttarakhand Board of Technical Education (UBTER) had recently released recruitment advertisement for 1238 posts of nurses in the health department. However it had inserted a provision that the applicants should have at least one year of working experience in a 30 bed hospital and they should have a form 16. This clause was opposed by the nursing applicants as large numbers of them were getting disqualified for the recruitment procedure. They pointed out that there are very few 30 bed hospitals in the mountainous areas of the state and their experience of working in even the government hospitals had become redundant due to this clause. The opposition Congress had supported the unemployed in their opposition of the clause. The Kedarnath MLA Manoj Rawat was at forefront of the opposition of the clause of 30 bed hospital and Form 16 compulsions and had argued that no state has such provision. In a press conference he along with the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) President Pritam Singh had accused the state administration of deliberately preventing the applicants of the state for the recruitment drive. Former Chief Minister Harish Rawat too joined the chorus of the opposition for these controversial clauses in the recruitment of nurses.
The health secretary Amit Singh Negi said that the compulsion of 30 bed hospital and Form 16 would be removed from the recruitment process of nurses. He said that a proposal for it would be brought before the cabinet soon.
Wednesday, 06 January 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
