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The Madras High Court has stayed the cognition of a Government Order (G.O.) issued by the State Health and Family Welfare section connected August 20, 2025 for transferring from Chennai to Nagapattinam an Associate Professor of Paediatrics who had undertaken a march from Mettur to Chennai successful June this twelvemonth demanding wage parity with the doctors successful cardinal authorities service.
Justice A.D. Jagadish Chandira granted the interim enactment pursuant to a writ petition filed by S. Perumal Pillai, besides the president of Legal Coordination Committee for Government Doctors, challenging the G.O. The justice besides recorded the submission of an Additonal Government Pleader that the petitioner would beryllium accommodated successful Tiruvallur Government Medical College Hospital until further orders.
In his affidavit, the paediatrician stated helium had been warring for agelong against the wage operation followed for authorities doctors successful Tamil Nadu since it was overmuch little compared to those moving for the Centre and successful the neighbouring States of Kerala and Karnataka. The petitioner said, though the basal wage for each doctors was the aforesaid astatine introduction level, the disparity begins aft completion of 5 years of service.
The disparity starts astatine astir ₹4,000 connected completion of 5 years of work and progressively increases to astir ₹40,000 implicit the adjacent 20 years of work owed to the agelong spread successful revision of pay. A G.O. was issued connected September 23, 2009 for introducing the conception of Vacancy Based Dynamic Career Progression. Even that was kept successful acold retention and not implemented till date, the petitioner complained.
Therefore, helium had undertaken a march from Dr. Lakshmi Narasimhan’s memorial successful Mettur to Chennai by applying for compensatory permission from June 11 to June 13, 2025, support permission connected June 14 and casual permission from June 16 to 19, 2025. He claimed to person applied for the permission done Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System and aft informing his superior astir the crushed for which helium was availing leave.
On August 14, 2025, the Director of Medical Education and Research initiated disciplinary proceedings against Dr. Perumal for having conducted the protestation against the State authorities and issued a complaint memo. Subsequently, connected August 20, the transportation bid was issued connected the crushed that the petitioner had failed to instrumentality to work contempt rejection of his permission petition from June 16 to 19, 2025.
“Dr.S. Perumal Pillai, Associate Professor of Paediatrics, Madras Medical College/Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children, Chennai is transferred and posted arsenic Associate Professor of Paediatrics successful Government Medical College, Nagapattinam vice Dr.R.V. Dhakshayani, transferred, pending initiation of disciplinary enactment against him,” the G.O. read.
Assailing the transportation order, the petitioner, successful his affidavit, said: “The archetypal responsive (Health Secretary) has efficaciously predetermined my punishment adjacent earlier the commencement of the enquiry and the issuance of the transportation bid amounts to a penal transportation rendering the ongoing disciplinary proceedings meaningless. The actions of the respondents are intelligibly vindictive, retaliatory and successful usurpation of principles of earthy justice. “
