Telangana Doctors, staff in NIMS on Warpath

HYDERABAD: NIMS Telangana Doctors and NIMS Telangana Udyogula Sanghm have jointly demanded that the sate government take steps to implement the Presidential Order in recruitments to the Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences to end the regional discrimination.Telangana Doctors Joint Action committee (TDJAC) president Dr Narasaiahm, NIMS Telangana Doctors leader Dr Praven and NIMS Telangana Udyogula Sangam general secretary A Satya Goud told reporters here on Wednesday that NIMS director Prashant Mahapatra had begun the process of filling up 40 posts of paramedical staff. These posts should be filled by implementing the Presidential order and social reservation. If the director did not follow the reservation policy, Telanganites would lay siege to the NIMS and obstruct the medical services there, they warned.They also demanded that the government fill the post of the executive registrar with a Telangana medical and health academician working in the NIMS. The NIMS unions declared support for Telangana Sakala Janula Samme and took a pledge to play a key role in the movement.TDJAC president Dr Narasaiah released a charter of ten demands. He said NIMS authorities were showing regional discrimination in all sections of the institution and alleged that the government did not select a Telangana person for the director post. NIMS total faculty strength was 142 but only 16 posts were given to Telangana persons, he pointed out. As long back as 1995 the High Court had directed the NIMS to implement the Presidential Order but the authorities created several new posts to accommodate Seemandhrass on huge salaries, he alleged and demanded 100 per cent employment to locals in the NIMS. Dr Narasaiah demanded that the second unit of NIMS, which is under construction at Bibinagar in Nalgonda district, be named after late K Jayashankar and developed on the lines of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi. The campus was being built at a cost of `85 crore by utilising NIMS funds whereas government directly provided funds to medical institutions in other parts of the state.