Chennai: The Madras high court has said appointments made in respect of medical officers in the hospitals of Indian medicine and homeopathy will be subject to the result of a petition pending before it. Justice K. Ravichandra Baabu also ordered notice, returnable by six weeks, to the state health secretary, Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC), Medical Service Recruitment Board (MSRB) and the secretary, Indian Medicine and Homeopathy, on a petition filed by Dr D. Uma Maheswari, a specialist in Ayurveda.
According to the petitioner, originally recruitment to the medical and paramedical and non-medical category of government services were made through TNPSC. However, considering the difficulties in the mode of appointment and the delay caused in recruitment, a separate recruitment board, the MSRB, was formed by the government in 2012. While so, TNPSC issued a notification on March 26, 2015 for the recruitment of several vacancies which fall under the purview of the MSRB. Hence, she filed the present petition.
She said once a specialised body — the MSRB — was constituted for appointment of doctors, TNPSC has no jurisdiction to conduct recruitment in respect of medical officers. Hence, she sought to quash the notification issued by TNPSC for the appointment of assistant medical officers and direct the authorities to conduct recruitment through the MSRB.
