New Delhi: AIIMS director P Venugopal is back in office after 48 hours. And one of the first decisions taken by him was to ask the registrar of the institute to go.
The director's office has issued a show cause notice to the institute registrar V P Gupta for allegedly creating confusion over the matter of salaries of doctors who were on strike against reservations.
"Gupta has been served a show cause notice and asked to explain within two weeks the confusion regarding the release of salaries to the doctors who participated in the anti-quota agitation. Till then Gupta's junior will take over his duties,'' AIIMS spokesperson Shakti Gupta said.
However, he clarified that Gupta has not been dismissed and had only been asked to stay away from his duty for two weeks. ''When a show cause notice is served a person is asked to relinquish duty for the period he submits an explanation.”
Venugopal resumed duty on Saturday morning after the High Court stayed his dismissal on Friday.
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who is on a warpath with Venugopal, had stopped salaries of the doctors for the strike period of almost 16 days, saying ‘no work no pay’, despite the court orders that no punitive action will be taken against striking doctors.
Venugopal was criticised for allowing the almost 16-day anti-quota reservation in May to be run from the institute's premises and ‘being lenient‘ with the agitating doctors and students.
On July 1, there were reports that the Venugopal had ordered the release of the salaries to the doctors. However, the next day his office denied the reports and even the administration did not release the salaries, saying the matter was pending in court.
After the court order, the director had said that he would not compromise on the dignity of the institute and continue to fight for its autonomy. He had said he would ignore the ‘personal humiliation meted out to him’.
Venugopal was dismissed on Wednesday by the AIIMS Institute Governing Body, headed by Ramadoss, for violating the code of conduct of the premier institute.
With Agency inputs
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