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The State Health Department has warned employees of disciplinary enactment if they spell up with projected protests implicit pending service-related demands, adjacent arsenic unit associations stepped up unit seeking promotions, seniority revision and opportunities for higher studies.
In a communication, the section cautioned that information successful agitation would invitation enactment nether behaviour rules and urged employees not to disrupt nationalist wellness services. Officials maintained that respective corrective measures were already nether way.
Members of the Karnataka Government Medical Officers’ Association (KGMOA) and different Employees’ associations person flagged agelong delays successful revising cadre and recruitment rules, immoderate of which person not been comprehensively updated for astir 50 years. They person threatened to motorboat a phased agitation from March 11 and person fixed a 21-day announcement to the government. The section said proposals sent to the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms were returned with objections and are being resubmitted with modifications.
A large grievance concerns pending seniority lists. While the lists for General Duty Medical Officers and Senior Medical Officers were past finalised successful 2009 and 2012 respectively, respective cadres person not seen revisions for years. The section attributed this to the deficiency of consolidated work records and said a provisional database published successful 2024 could not beryllium finalised owed to objections and incomplete territory data. Promotions are presently being granted based connected provisional lists nether Rule 32, an authoritative connection said.
Officials added that a 2nd Chief Administrative Officer station was created to expedite work matters and that 450 doctors person received time-bound promotions. Human assets information are being digitised nether HRMS-2.0.
On demands for deputation to higher studies, the authorities said specified sponsorship is not a cardinal close and is constricted to 5% of sanctioned posts, based connected work needs, peculiarly successful agrarian areas.
