HMC admin restrained from finalising appointments
The counsel said his clients’ rights were violated and requested the bench to stay the process
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PESHAWAR:
The Peshawar High Court extended a stay order that restrained the administration of the Hayatabad Medical Complex administration from finalising the appointment of non-technical staff. It also sought replies from HMC in this case.
A division bench, comprising justices Yahya Afridi and Younis Thaheem, was hearing a writ petition filed by Syed Dauran Shah, along with 30 other applicants on Friday.
Ansarullah, the petitioner’s counsel, said his clients had been serving as non-technical staff at the hospital as plumbers, sanitary workers and air conditioner operators.
“Employees are regularised under the recently introduced Medical and Teaching Institutions (MTI) Reforms Act 2015, but there is no quota fixed for them,” he argued. He claimed the health department had advertised vacancies to be filled by candidates through the National Testing Service (NTS). As a result, tests and interviews were conducted.
The counsel said his clients’ rights were violated and requested the bench to stay the process. In an earlier hearing of the same case, the bench stopped the appointment process and ordered the HMC administration to file its reply in the petition. However, it failed to submit comments after which the bench restrained the administration from finalising the appointments and extended the stay order issued on the last hearing.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 5th, 2016.
The Peshawar High Court extended a stay order that restrained the administration of the Hayatabad Medical Complex administration from finalising the appointment of non-technical staff. It also sought replies from HMC in this case.
A division bench, comprising justices Yahya Afridi and Younis Thaheem, was hearing a writ petition filed by Syed Dauran Shah, along with 30 other applicants on Friday.
Ansarullah, the petitioner’s counsel, said his clients had been serving as non-technical staff at the hospital as plumbers, sanitary workers and air conditioner operators.
“Employees are regularised under the recently introduced Medical and Teaching Institutions (MTI) Reforms Act 2015, but there is no quota fixed for them,” he argued. He claimed the health department had advertised vacancies to be filled by candidates through the National Testing Service (NTS). As a result, tests and interviews were conducted.
The counsel said his clients’ rights were violated and requested the bench to stay the process. In an earlier hearing of the same case, the bench stopped the appointment process and ordered the HMC administration to file its reply in the petition. However, it failed to submit comments after which the bench restrained the administration from finalising the appointments and extended the stay order issued on the last hearing.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 5th, 2016.