Resolve pending postings of 23 UPSC-selected doctors: L-G; AAP hits back

New Delhi: The Delhi Lt Governor has asked officials to resolve the issue of pending postings of 23 doctors selected through the UPSC as an authority that decides such matters has not convened a meeting since Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s incarceration.

The National Capital Civil Service Authority (NCCSA), which is headed by the Delhi chief minister and has the chief secretary and the principal home secretary as its members, has not met after Kejriwal was arrested in the excise policy case in March.

The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), however, said the issue has been flagged multiple times and the Lt Governor (L-G) should answer why it took him more than two years to find a solution to the matter which has been pending for years.

Raj Niwas officials on Wednesday said L-G V K Saxena recently reviewed the status of recruitments and vacant positions in the Delhi health department.

The focus was on expediting the filling up of vacant posts in the medical, paramedical and the nursing wings of Delhi government hospitals. This has been pending for the last 10 years, they said.

The L-G was informed that 23 Group ‘’A’’ doctors of different specialties, such as neurosurgery, cardiology, plastic surgery and microbiology, had already been appointed by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and their dossiers sent to the health department in July last year, an official said.

“However, their postings are yet to take place because the competent authority to post them — the NCCSA — was not meeting due to the chief minister being in judicial custody,” the official said.

“The L-G directed the chief secretary and the principal secretary services to immediately find a way out, especially

in the light of a severe shortage of doctors that government hospitals in Delhi are facing,” the official said.