57 quota posts filled in Punjab medical colleges
In order to streamline the functioning of the Government Medical Colleges in the state, the Punjab Government today decided to fill up 57 vacant direct quota posts of teaching faculty on an adhoc basis.
By PTI |
CHANDIGARH: In order to streamline the functioning of the Government Medical Colleges in the state, the Punjab Government today decided to fill up 57 vacant direct quota posts of teaching faculty on an adhoc basis. A decision to this effect was taken in a meeting chaired by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal held here.
The Chief Minister also approved the proposal of the Medical Education and Research Department to re-designate 60 posts of Medical Officers to that of lecturer in the pre/para clinical departments and that of Senior Residents in the clinical departments. Likewise, it was also decided in the meeting to fill 266 vacant paramedical and 159 class IV posts by outsourcing.
The Chief Minister asked the Secretary Medical Education and Research to submit a detailed master plan to upgrade the existing infrastructure in the state medical institutions which were in the dilapidated condition over the past 25 years.
He said that the services of renowned architects should be engaged in consultation with Punjab Infrastructure Development Board (PIDB) to facelift the buildings of the medical colleges of Patiala, Amritsar and Faridkot on the modern lines with a state-of-the-art technology in a phased manner.
Badal pointed out the Medical Institutions of Amritsar and Patiala would be taken in the first phase and the up-gradation of Baba Farid University of Medical Sciences and Medical College Faridkot would be executed in the second phase.
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It was also decided to grant financial autonomy to these medical institutions with a small coordinating committee to supervise its functioning in a result oriented manner. Taking part in the deliberations, Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal opined to make optimal use of the user charges for the maintenance and up-gradation of the infrastructure, machinery and equipment in these colleges. It was also decided in the meeting to raise a corpus fund of Rs 100 crore in order to give financial autonomy to these institutions thereby minimizing their dependence on the state budget.
Briefing the Chief Minister, Medical Education and Research Minister Tikshan Sud also emphasised the need to strengthen the infrastructure and logistics in the Government Ayurveda Medical College Patiala - one of the oldest ayurvedic institutions of the Northern India in order to undertake research and development in the ayurvedic system of medicine keeping in view its growing popularity amongst the people in the present time.
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