The high court has asked the state government to file separate lists of legitimate and invalid appointments today.
Three senior lab technicians recruited without inviting any application, 61 nurses hired while applications were invited for just 26 posts, advertisement issued to employ one CT scanner technician but two recruited, and no applications received for 16 different posts due to inadequate publicity… The list of irregularities in Hassan and Mysore medical colleges that is tumbling out is long and damning.
Setting the ball rolling on Ramachandra Gowda’s exit was the high court which on Friday rejected the former medical education minister’s affidavit explaining that all the rules of recruitment had been adhered to in appointing non-teaching staff at Hassan and Mysore medical colleges.
The court has asked the state government to file a separate list on Monday of the candidates whose appointment were valid and of those whose selection violated the recruitment rules. The additional advocate general of the state had earlier admitted to irregularities in the appointment of non-teaching staff in the medical colleges in Hassan and Mysore.
The chief minister had already cancelled the appointments of over 350 lab technicians, nurses and other non-teaching staff following a probe by the secretary of medical education department IM Vittal Murthy.
Even as babus in the department of medical education worked through Ganesh Chaturthi and Sunday to beat the high court deadline to prepare the list of tainted and untainted recruitments, more skeletons have started tumbling out confirming the widespread irregularities in the recruitment process.
Sources said rules were violated at the very beginning of the process when wide publicity, inviting applications for the C and D group employees, was not given by the government. It is said that the advertisement appeared only in two papers — an English daily and a local Kannada newspaper in Hassan. This amounted to denying opportunity to the qualified candidates across the state from applying for the posts.
The medical education department did not seek the approval of the heads of the finance and administration departments, ignoring an important step in the recruitment process.
According to recruitment and service rules, applications should be called in 1:3 ratio, while the government invited applications to fill the posts in the ratio of 1:10. No announcements were made regarding reservation roster against the vacant posts and marks for interview increased from the stipulated 15 to 25. A couple of posts were found to have been filled without even calling for the customary applications. Violation of the reservation roster was against the Constitution.
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