Doctors’ body seeks waiting lists in Telangana medical recruitments as vacancies remain unfilled despite available candidates

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Members of the Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA) submitted a practice   to Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha connected  Saturday (April 4) urging the authorities  to present  category-wise waiting lists successful  ongoing aesculapian  recruitments.

Members of the Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA) submitted a practice to Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha connected Saturday (April 4) urging the authorities to present category-wise waiting lists successful ongoing aesculapian recruitments. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA) urged the Telangana authorities to present category-wise waiting lists successful ongoing aesculapian recruitments, flagging that the lack of specified a strategy is leaving respective sanctioned posts unfilled contempt the availability of eligible candidates.

In a practice submitted to Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha connected Saturday (April 4), the relation pointed to 2 large recruitments presently nether mode — Assistant Professor posts nether the Director of Medical Education (607 posts) and Civil Assistant Surgeon Specialists nether the Telangana Vaidya Vidhana Parishad (1,623 posts) — wherever existing rules bash not licence waiting lists.

As per existent provisions nether G.O.Ms. No.81 dated February 22, 1997, unfilled vacancies arising from non-joining oregon dropouts are carried guardant to the adjacent recruitment rhythm alternatively than being filled immediately. This leads to a concern wherever adjacent erstwhile eligible candidates are available, vacancies stay unoccupied erstwhile the main enactment database is exhausted. This affects some aesculapian acquisition and diligent care, peculiarly successful a strategy already facing unit shortages, said Karthik Nagula, president, HRDA.

The practice besides highlighted operational challenges caused by the lack of waiting lists. These see vacancies remaining unfilled erstwhile selected candidates neglect to be counselling, diminution postings, oregon retreat aft selection. In immoderate cases, repeated carry-forward of vacancies leads to backlog accumulation, portion peripheral hospitals proceed to look shortages of specialists.

The relation has projected that category-wise waiting lists beryllium prepared for some DME and TVVP recruitments and beryllium activated successful cases wherever selected candidates bash not join, bash not opt for disposable posts, oregon withdraw.

Published - April 04, 2026 07:06 p.m. IST

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