Service structure: Revised formula for general cadre doctors issued
The new formula will allow more doctors of general cadre to be promoted into grade 18, 19 and 20.
LAHORE:
The notification of a revised promotion formula for general cadre doctors of the Punjab is the first milestone for doctors seeking a new service structure.
The new formula will allow more doctors of general cadre to be promoted into grade 18, 19 and 20.
General Cadre Doctors Association (GCDA) President Dr Masood Akhtar Sheikh said this while addressing a provincial council meeting held after the notification was issued on Friday.
Sheikh said the association had had meetings with Finance Department officials including the additional secretary finance, the deputy secretary finance, the secretary finance and the health secretary and the special secretary. As a result, the Finance Department issued an order on December 21 a majorbreak through in the implementation of a new service structure. He said the longstanding GCDA demand to revise the strength of general cadre doctors had been accepted. He said the strength of male general cadre doctors would now be 10,698 instead of 9,051 and that of female GC doctor 4,031 instead of 3,654, raising the total strength to 14,729 from 12,705.
He said another demand for revising the four-tier formula had also been accepted. He said the revised formula had added 230 grade 20 seats in male, 84 seats in female, 676 grade 19 seats in male, 218 seats in female, 774 grade 18 seats in male and 209 seats in female categories. He said this would help rectify discrimination against general cadre doctors. This was also a major step to stop brain drain from the country.
Dr Sheikh said that since hundreds of seats were now available in grade 20 and 19, it was high time the tentative seniority list of doctors in grade 18 was revised and notified. He said the promotions would start from the higher scale, and the promotions of BS 18 and 19 into BS 19 and 20 should be made prior to promotions from grade 17 to 18.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 22nd, 2012.
The notification of a revised promotion formula for general cadre doctors of the Punjab is the first milestone for doctors seeking a new service structure.
The new formula will allow more doctors of general cadre to be promoted into grade 18, 19 and 20.
General Cadre Doctors Association (GCDA) President Dr Masood Akhtar Sheikh said this while addressing a provincial council meeting held after the notification was issued on Friday.
Sheikh said the association had had meetings with Finance Department officials including the additional secretary finance, the deputy secretary finance, the secretary finance and the health secretary and the special secretary. As a result, the Finance Department issued an order on December 21 a majorbreak through in the implementation of a new service structure. He said the longstanding GCDA demand to revise the strength of general cadre doctors had been accepted. He said the strength of male general cadre doctors would now be 10,698 instead of 9,051 and that of female GC doctor 4,031 instead of 3,654, raising the total strength to 14,729 from 12,705.
He said another demand for revising the four-tier formula had also been accepted. He said the revised formula had added 230 grade 20 seats in male, 84 seats in female, 676 grade 19 seats in male, 218 seats in female, 774 grade 18 seats in male and 209 seats in female categories. He said this would help rectify discrimination against general cadre doctors. This was also a major step to stop brain drain from the country.
Dr Sheikh said that since hundreds of seats were now available in grade 20 and 19, it was high time the tentative seniority list of doctors in grade 18 was revised and notified. He said the promotions would start from the higher scale, and the promotions of BS 18 and 19 into BS 19 and 20 should be made prior to promotions from grade 17 to 18.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 22nd, 2012.