Date:12/01/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/01/12/stories/2008011259930300.htm

New Delhi

Court asks AIIMS to maintain status quo

Staff Reporter

Direction with regard to selection of resident doctors
Doctors file petition for regularisation of their service

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) administration to maintain the status quo in selection of senior resident doctors till further orders.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice M.K. Sharma and Justice Aruna Suresh passed the direction on a petition by a group of the doctors seeking regularisation of their services. Taking their petition on record, the Bench directed the AIIMS administration to maintain the status quo till further orders and disposal of the matter.

The petition will now come up for hearing on March 18.

The AIIMS administration had selected these doctors in 2007 under the Central Government Residency Scheme in the general as well reserved categories but later refused to issue appointment letters to them on the ground that reservation in appointments was not permitted sssunder the scheme.

The administration had, however, given ad hoc appointments to them and has been extending them periodically since.

These doctors now want the administration to regularise their services as provided in the scheme and the AIIMS Act.