Ayush Doctors Face Retaliation After Court Petition to Increase Retirement Age | Lucknow News

Lucknow: “After virtual demotion, now suspension slap,” a group of seniors said Ayush doctorsMany department-level officers and those on the verge of retirement claim there is no end to the ‘persecution’ meted out to them by the ministry for their move Allahabad high court seek their increase retirement age Between 60 and 62 years old.
They said that after giving orders for foreclosure to small hospitals in remote places, the ministry has now issued this order. suspension order at least six of them.
“First, after the transfer season ended, they sent us to different places. Moreover, the transfers were not made in accordance with the policy. In fact, senior doctors were ‘demoted’ to lower positions and sent to distant places. Transfers were stopped in October. One of the petitioners said, “Some of our salaries are paid in no particular order. ” he said.
The attachment decision (positioned as a fake transfer decision in the writ petition) was challenged by these doctors. Currently serving as senior medical officer at the government homeopathic dispensary at the CM residence, Dr. Prabhakar Rai challenged his allegiance to Chandauli district before the high court.
After hearing the case on October 21, the HC withdrew the attachment order and directed the standing counsel to file the government’s reply within three weeks. Now he has been suspended. Among others, Dr. Sangita Bhatia and Dr. In Suman Raheja’s cases (separate writ petitions), heard on October 25, the high court questioned the attachment order and asked the ministry to specify on which rules/guidelines this decision was based.
The HC also directed the state government not to take any coercive action against the petitioning doctors until the next hearing on November 7. Dr. While Bhatia was suspended from duty on October 23, Dr Raheja’s restraining order was issued on the same day her petition was heard. by the court.
When contacted, director general Ayush Manavendra Singh said: “There is no shortage of doctors in Ayush’s cadre, unlike the allopathic service. A petition in the matter is also in the Supreme Court. We have informed the high court about the appointment of Ayush. The ministry has the power to transfer doctors whenever required by the state government.” , if doctors do not comply with the orders, they will face suspension as per norms.”
In May 2017, the UP government had increased the retirement age of allopathy doctors in PMHS cadre from 60 to 62 years. Later, doctors in Ayush district filed several petitions in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court seeking the same hike in retirement ages.
Hearing one such petition filed by Dr Surendra Pratap Yadav, the HC in January 2023 allowed homeopathic doctors to remain in government service till the age of 62 and enjoy all eligible benefits of the service.
North Delhi Municipal Corporation’s Dr. The apex court order in the case filed against Ram Naresh Sharma formed the basis for various high court benches to direct Ayush department officials to provide relief to the petitioners. More than a dozen such orders satisfied the petitioning doctors’ request. In the case of Dr Ram Naresh Sharma, the SC noted: “The only difference is that Ayush doctors use indigenous systems of medicine like Ayurveda, Unani etc. and CHS doctors use Allopathy to take care of their patients. In our understanding, the course of treatment as per the Existing scheme alone is understandable Therefore, such an unreasonable classification and discrimination based on it would of course be contrary to Article 14 of the Constitution… Doctors under both Ayush and CHS, Therefore, it is rational to have different dates for granting the benefit of extended retirement age to doctors in these two categories. “There is no justification.”
“The Ayush department selectively implemented the order in response to the filing of contempt petitions by some petitioners. The said contempt petition was challenged by the department in the Supreme Court,” said an aggrieved doctor. Separately, the apex court is also hearing a plea by the Rajasthan government challenging the high court’s decision to increase the retirement age of Ayush doctors to 62 years.