08-04-2006, 01:23 AM
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Pioneer.com
Praveen Kumar | New Delhi
Even after the Supreme Court's ordered the release of salary to resident doctors of AIIMS who were absent from duty during the anti-quota stir in May, the Centre has not issued any instructions regarding the same. <b>The resident doctors allege that the authorities at the AIIMS are trying to delay the matter despite a directive by the apex court.</b>
<b>What's compounding the doctors' woes was the fact that the Delhi Government had released the salaries of its medicos for the same period.</b>
Speaking to The Pioneer, V P Gupta, Registrar of the institute said, "We have not received any documents either from the Centre or the court pertaining to the release of salary to the resident doctors. Unless and until we receive any such instructions we can't start the proceedings in the matter on our own. It is upon the higher authorities at the Centre to take up the issue." <b>Gupta further added that it is through the media that they learnt about the Supreme Court's order and the Centre had still to provide them with the documents related to the release of salary of the doctors.</b>
Meanwhile the resident doctors are once again planning to knock on the doors of the apex court against the lackadaisical stand of the Government. Neeraj Kumar, a resident doctor of AIIMS said, <b>"We are planning to file a contempt application against the Health Ministry for not disbursing the salary in spite of the Supreme Court's order. For the past two weeks we have been waiting for our salary but it seems that the Centre has made up its mind to delay the matter for as long as they can."</b>
The resident doctors have even blamed the registrar for being inactive in the whole matter. Reacting to the registrar's comment, a resident doctor said, <b>"If Dr Gupta has not received the documents from the Centre then why does he not give the same in writing. Earlier the Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss had said that the ministry would pay salaries to the striking medicos only if the court directs them to do so and now when an order has been passed they are sitting silent over the matter."</b>
The medicos had struck work against the Government's move to reserve additional seats for OBCs in institutes of higher learning. It was on the assurance of the SC that the doctors called off their strike.
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Pioneer.com
Praveen Kumar | New Delhi
Even after the Supreme Court's ordered the release of salary to resident doctors of AIIMS who were absent from duty during the anti-quota stir in May, the Centre has not issued any instructions regarding the same. <b>The resident doctors allege that the authorities at the AIIMS are trying to delay the matter despite a directive by the apex court.</b>
<b>What's compounding the doctors' woes was the fact that the Delhi Government had released the salaries of its medicos for the same period.</b>
Speaking to The Pioneer, V P Gupta, Registrar of the institute said, "We have not received any documents either from the Centre or the court pertaining to the release of salary to the resident doctors. Unless and until we receive any such instructions we can't start the proceedings in the matter on our own. It is upon the higher authorities at the Centre to take up the issue." <b>Gupta further added that it is through the media that they learnt about the Supreme Court's order and the Centre had still to provide them with the documents related to the release of salary of the doctors.</b>
Meanwhile the resident doctors are once again planning to knock on the doors of the apex court against the lackadaisical stand of the Government. Neeraj Kumar, a resident doctor of AIIMS said, <b>"We are planning to file a contempt application against the Health Ministry for not disbursing the salary in spite of the Supreme Court's order. For the past two weeks we have been waiting for our salary but it seems that the Centre has made up its mind to delay the matter for as long as they can."</b>
The resident doctors have even blamed the registrar for being inactive in the whole matter. Reacting to the registrar's comment, a resident doctor said, <b>"If Dr Gupta has not received the documents from the Centre then why does he not give the same in writing. Earlier the Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss had said that the ministry would pay salaries to the striking medicos only if the court directs them to do so and now when an order has been passed they are sitting silent over the matter."</b>
The medicos had struck work against the Government's move to reserve additional seats for OBCs in institutes of higher learning. It was on the assurance of the SC that the doctors called off their strike.
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