Shillong, Dec 21: The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) has asked the health minister Ampareen Lyngdoh to intervene into the recent recruitment in the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS).
In a letter to Lyngdoh, KSU president Lambokstarwell Marngar said the selection of 194 vacant posts of Nursing Officer against advertisement dated 25.08.2023 conducted by AIIMS, New Delhi through NORCET-5 in which 175 posts of Nursing Officer were allotted to male candidates and only 19 females candidates were selected and to the utter dismay of the Union, only a handful of approximately 15 candidates who were selected belongs to the indigenous tribal community of the state.
“Nursing is a profession which has been uphold by majority of females since the time of inception and which is duly followed by other prestigious medical institutes whereby the ratio of female to male nurses are 80:20 respectively but it saddens to see that it is completely opposite in NEIGRIHMS, he said.
Moreover, all the candidates which have been selected have little or no experience at all as most of them have only cleared their theoretical examination from their respective institutes with no real practical experience to back them up and this will affect the health services which will be rendered out to the public, he said.
The examination was conducted by an agency with the nomenclature HLL through CBT mode.
“It was observed that a large number of the local indigenous candidates were not able to appear for the examination as the centres for examination were allotted in Guwahati, Jorhat, Dibrugarh and Delhi. This again has devoid the opportunity for local indigenous candidates of the State. Moreover, this very agency for the post of Record Clerk, has set up questions in Hindi language going beyond the specific guidelines and syllabus,” he said.
