Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 6: Medical faculty aspirants from Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) of Jammu and Srinagar have expressed huge resentment over proposed hike in age retirement of faculty, stating that it will not only block promotional avenue of the aspirant eligible faculty but also invite unemployment.
In last few days, Excelsior office received several calls of doctors from GMCs of Jammu and Srinagar expressing anguish over any such move, stating that enhancement in retirement age will aggravate the problem of brain drain in J&K.
A medical faculty aspirant said that Government is insensitive to their plight. He said, “We want to serve here but when we have no avenues to look up to, we are forced to seek employment outside J&K or India”.
He said enhancement of age from 62 to 65 in all medical colleges of UT of J&K shall invite huge financial implications for the Union Territory of J&K and further such orders of age enhancement shall open flood gates for many departments including Universities of Jammu and Srinagar as Central University with similar demands.
Another aspirant said that Government has already increased age of retirement of faculty from 58 to 62 years. He said that further increase in retirement age will stop all possibilities of engaging faculty on academic basis in new medical colleges and will prove to be a set back to the faculty deployment in new medical colleges as no retired faculty will be available for opting such agreement for next 3 years.
“As per MCI norms, in both GMC Jammu and Srinagar have nearly 2 to 3 times the eligible faculty already available as professors in various departments which means that superannuation of senior faculty shall not make any difference in the available pool as per MCI norms or PG Teacher ration but it is sure that age enhancement shall block promotional avenue of the aspirant eligible faculty for next three years and will block the employment possibilities for thousands of aspirants through PSC as well.
However, Financial Commissioner, Health and Medical Education, J&K, Atal Dulloo said that there is no such proposal under their consideration as of now. However, he said that over one year ago the proposal of enhancement of retirement age of medical faculty was discussed but no such decision was taken yet.
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