SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, April 11: The state government has directed the principals of all the five medical colleges of the state to prepare a monthly duty calendar of all teachers and ensure its implementation on a priority basis.
In this regard, Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) of health Arun Kumar Singh has shot off a letter (April 10) to the principals of MGMMCH Jamshedpur, SNMMCH Dhanbad, SKMCH Dumka, SBMCH Hazaribagh and MMCH Palamu to prepare a monthly calendar of all the teachers and upload it on the website of their respective college.
The Health secretary has also directed the principals to ensure that the teachers hold classes and attend to patients timely as per the monthly calendar.
“It has been found during a review that due to lack of proper monthly calendar in different faculties of government medical colleges, teachers do not perform duty as per the government guidelines which badly impacts academic activities of medical colleges as well as the study of students. Keeping this in mind it is being ordered to prepare a monthly duty calendar of all teachers and upload that on the institution’s website”, Arun Kumar Singh has said in his letter to the principal.
The Health secretary has also directed the principals of all five medical colleges to send a report to the Director of Medical Education of Health and Family Welfare department positively on the date of 10th each month about the implementation of the monthly calendar, including a teacher took how many classes and attended how many patients.
If a teacher misses the duty as per the monthly calendar, the principal will have to report in which condition he/she missed that and what action has been taken against him.
Senior professors of medical colleges are surprised over seeking monthly calendars of faculty members. A senior professor of a medical college said that the Head of each faculty prepares the roaster (calendar) of his department and sends it to the principal. If any teacher does not follow the roaster then he is marked absent, so there is no need for such a circular.
Another senior teacher said that all the five medical colleges are reeling under acute shortages of teachers. Several departments in all five medical colleges are closed. Even PG students, who are working under bond in medical colleges, have to hold classes due to a lack of teachers. In such a situation, a monthly calendar would spoil the working spirit of teachers.
