BENGALURU: Former chief minister and senior BJP member Jagadish Shettar on Wednesday expressed concern over what he called the inordinate delay in issuing appointment letters to doctors recruited for government hospitals and medical colleges.
Speaking on the motion of thanks to the governor’s address in the assembly, Shettar alleged that the provisional list of 70 doctors to be appointed at Haveri medical college was announced in January 2022, but no appointment letters have been issued to the successful candidates.
Similarly, he said a provisional list of 30 doctors to be appointed at Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubballi was announced four months ago but the letters are still elusive. “I don’t know what is happening in the health department. On on hand, we keep saying doctors are not willing to join government colleges and hospitals. On the other, there are such delays,” he said.
He took a jibe at health and medical education minister K Sudhakar over the issue and said: “I have heard that you are an efficient minister. But there seems to a problem about the movement of files in your department. If you allow such things to continue, people’s opinion about your efficiency may change,” he stated.
Sudhakar said the final list regarding Haveri medical college has not been shared with his department till now and is still with the college. As far as KIMS, Hubballi is concerned, he would ensure that the appointment letters are issued in a week, the minister further added.
Shettar retorted by saying it was the minister’s duty to verify with the college why the list was not sent almost one year after the provisional list was announced. He claimed he had raised the issue on multiple occasions – with Sudhakar and at party meetings – but to no avail.
The former CM also took potshots at CM Basavaraj Bommai and water resources minister Govind Karjol over the Kalasa-Banduri drinking water project and Benne Halla and Tuppari Halla flood-control projects. “The Centre granting approval to Kalasa-Banduri is welcome. But the state government’s job doesn’t end there. You should try to get environmental clearances at the earliest,” he said. He also sought to know why the flood-control projects have been not taken up despite the cabinet and finance department approval.
Shettar urged the government to make a fresh proposal to the Centre to implement the long- pending Hubballi-Ankola railway line project. National Wildlife Board had in its recent meeting opined that the state can submit a fresh proposal to lay the railway line along the existing national highway, which will cause minimal damage to the forest.
Speaking on the motion of thanks to the governor’s address in the assembly, Shettar alleged that the provisional list of 70 doctors to be appointed at Haveri medical college was announced in January 2022, but no appointment letters have been issued to the successful candidates.
Similarly, he said a provisional list of 30 doctors to be appointed at Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubballi was announced four months ago but the letters are still elusive. “I don’t know what is happening in the health department. On on hand, we keep saying doctors are not willing to join government colleges and hospitals. On the other, there are such delays,” he said.
He took a jibe at health and medical education minister K Sudhakar over the issue and said: “I have heard that you are an efficient minister. But there seems to a problem about the movement of files in your department. If you allow such things to continue, people’s opinion about your efficiency may change,” he stated.
Sudhakar said the final list regarding Haveri medical college has not been shared with his department till now and is still with the college. As far as KIMS, Hubballi is concerned, he would ensure that the appointment letters are issued in a week, the minister further added.
Shettar retorted by saying it was the minister’s duty to verify with the college why the list was not sent almost one year after the provisional list was announced. He claimed he had raised the issue on multiple occasions – with Sudhakar and at party meetings – but to no avail.
The former CM also took potshots at CM Basavaraj Bommai and water resources minister Govind Karjol over the Kalasa-Banduri drinking water project and Benne Halla and Tuppari Halla flood-control projects. “The Centre granting approval to Kalasa-Banduri is welcome. But the state government’s job doesn’t end there. You should try to get environmental clearances at the earliest,” he said. He also sought to know why the flood-control projects have been not taken up despite the cabinet and finance department approval.
Shettar urged the government to make a fresh proposal to the Centre to implement the long- pending Hubballi-Ankola railway line project. National Wildlife Board had in its recent meeting opined that the state can submit a fresh proposal to lay the railway line along the existing national highway, which will cause minimal damage to the forest.