In a display of dissent, doctors staged protests outside the office of the Director of Medical Education (DME) on Tuesday, protesting against the recent promotion of associate professors. The protesting doctors accused the government of deliberately underreporting vacancies, while the DME said that a section of doctors are unnecessarily creating confusion and stalling the counselling process.
According to vice president of the Telangana Teaching Government Doctors Association (TTGDA) Kiran Madala, there are approximately 781 vacancies for the post of associate professors. However, there were only 189 eligible candidates this year, leading the government to declare only 189 vacancies. Dr. Madala emphasized that the purpose of counseling is to reveal all available vacancies. With medical colleges now established in every district of the State, doctors are eager to accept promotions and contribute to these new institutions. To facilitate this, the government must demonstrate the existence of vacancies in these medical colleges.
The government’s released seat matrix comprises 25 medical colleges with 189 vacancies. Dr. Kiran also noted that the transfer list for associate professors, earlier released by the government, includes a total of 781 vacancies across 21 medical colleges.
