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Invalid degrees, Real jobs
There are 120 pharmacists appointed by Municipal Corporation
of Delhi (MCD) in its Ayurveda Department. It is surprising how all of them have their degrees from the same university and that too from the same college. The college they have appeared from had its affiliation cancelled by the Allahabad High Court in 1967. However, the college still awards the degrees of Vaidya Visharad and Ayurveda Ratan. And it seems these degrees are good enough for the holders to land even government jobs.
It is not that the top MCD officers do not know about this. But they are unwilling to take any action. According to the information obtained by TSI with the help of RTI, it becomes evident that some of these officers have made these appointments of pharmacists in collusion with touts. When TSI tried to elicit responses from Dr A. J. Kurien, additional commissioner (ADC), Health, MCD; Dr Vasu, additional director hospital administration (ADHA); Madhu Jain, DHA Hospital; and deputy DHA Dr Sunanda Nishal, none of them replied. In fact, one of the officers added in good measure that journalists should learn to ignore such 'minor' discrepancies or else unemployment will increase in this country. What he meant, we guess, is that his employment will be at risk if scribes started shedding light inside every black hole.
It is pretty evident that when fake degrees were accepted, it would had been done in lieu of cash benefits or those in kind. What these officers completely disregard is that these untrained pharmacists administer medicines to patients in dispensaries every day and hence their lack of subject knowledge can prove fatal. But these officers are least bothered.
When we tried to meet and talk to deputy DHA Dr Sunanda Nishal, she point blank refused to meet us. We were told that she is easily accessible and she had initially promised to meet us. However, when she came to know the real purpose of our meeting, she feigned prior engagements and refused to meet. But we kept on pestering her for a few more days. In the end, she decided to meet us but refused to answer any question on the issue. She would not even answer as non-controversial questions such as how many Ayurvedic dispensaries were functioning in Delhi. Dr Nishal said that she was new to the post and had little idea. She added that we would have to meet senior officials if we needed any information on the department.
We tried to seek responses at the MCD office at Chandni Chowk Town Hall but every officer we questioned kept us referring to some other officer. The buck kept on passing. One officer, under the condition of anonymity, told us that everyone sitting here at the Town Hall knew that the appointments have been made ignoring the fundamental requirements laid out for that post but none of the present officers could intervene as all the officers, during whose tenure these appointments were made, have long retired.
The university that doles out these degree is called Hindi Sahitya Sammelan and is based in Allahabad. This has been functioning since the pre-Independence days and has been running two courses by the name of Vaidya Visharad and Ayurveda Ratan. It has given out franchises at a few places in Delhi and Haryana.
However, during the 1970s, some of the officials from Uttar Pradesh Health Ministry filed a case against this institution and pleaded the court to withdraw its affiliation on the pretext of unavailability of proper educational infrastructure required to give out these degrees. The court ordered that the degrees of Vaidya Visharad and Ayurveda Ratan given by this institution will only be valid till 1967.
The judgment was forced from the same day. It should be mentioned here that the then Registrar of Medical Council of India based in Uttar Pradesh was dismissed from his job because his degree was awarded after 1967 from the same institution. It was also evident in the reply given by the UP government against an RTI. It said that there has been no appointments of compounders and pharmacists on the basis of a degree awarded by the institution after 1967. Now the question arises that if the degree awarded by an institution based in UP is not valid in the state itself, how come MCD grants jobs based on the same degree.
The funniest part is that apparently one of the sources based in this institution actually told MCD that many of the degrees were fake and have been doled out by franchisees in lieu of Rs 500, completely ignoring the directive of the court. However, the MCD officials refused to listen. The appointments were made and MCD never checked these degrees for their authenticity. The photocopies of these degrees are with TSI and have been obtained under RTI. These degrees have been attested by the MCD officials. Clearly, money has changed hands.
We had asked for photocopies of the degrees of all the 120 employees but were given only 86. Out of these 86, barring two, all are from the same institution. It is impossible that this would have escaped the notice of the MCD officials during the selection process.
It is not surprising that Ayurveda hospitals and dispensaries run by MCD find very few takers. There are two hospitals in Delhi, one in Haiderpur and other in Ballimaran. They have 100 and 40 beds respectively. There are 118 dispensaries, two diabetes centres at Rajouri Garden and Aryapura, eight Panchakarma Hospital with facilities of Oil Massage, Steam Massage, Shirodhara and what not. There are 165 vaidyas working. The vaidyas take home anything between Rs 50,000 and 1,00,000 as salaries. The pharmacists have salaries between Rs 30,000 and 40,000. The budget runs into crores of rupees but have you ever visited one? Extremely unlikely.
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Invalid degrees, Real jobs
There are 120 pharmacists appointed by Municipal Corporation
of Delhi (MCD) in its Ayurveda Department. It is surprising how all of them have their degrees from the same university and that too from the same college. The college they have appeared from had its affiliation cancelled by the Allahabad High Court in 1967. However, the college still awards the degrees of Vaidya Visharad and Ayurveda Ratan. And it seems these degrees are good enough for the holders to land even government jobs.It is not that the top MCD officers do not know about this. But they are unwilling to take any action. According to the information obtained by TSI with the help of RTI, it becomes evident that some of these officers have made these appointments of pharmacists in collusion with touts. When TSI tried to elicit responses from Dr A. J. Kurien, additional commissioner (ADC), Health, MCD; Dr Vasu, additional director hospital administration (ADHA); Madhu Jain, DHA Hospital; and deputy DHA Dr Sunanda Nishal, none of them replied. In fact, one of the officers added in good measure that journalists should learn to ignore such 'minor' discrepancies or else unemployment will increase in this country. What he meant, we guess, is that his employment will be at risk if scribes started shedding light inside every black hole.
It is pretty evident that when fake degrees were accepted, it would had been done in lieu of cash benefits or those in kind. What these officers completely disregard is that these untrained pharmacists administer medicines to patients in dispensaries every day and hence their lack of subject knowledge can prove fatal. But these officers are least bothered.
When we tried to meet and talk to deputy DHA Dr Sunanda Nishal, she point blank refused to meet us. We were told that she is easily accessible and she had initially promised to meet us. However, when she came to know the real purpose of our meeting, she feigned prior engagements and refused to meet. But we kept on pestering her for a few more days. In the end, she decided to meet us but refused to answer any question on the issue. She would not even answer as non-controversial questions such as how many Ayurvedic dispensaries were functioning in Delhi. Dr Nishal said that she was new to the post and had little idea. She added that we would have to meet senior officials if we needed any information on the department.
We tried to seek responses at the MCD office at Chandni Chowk Town Hall but every officer we questioned kept us referring to some other officer. The buck kept on passing. One officer, under the condition of anonymity, told us that everyone sitting here at the Town Hall knew that the appointments have been made ignoring the fundamental requirements laid out for that post but none of the present officers could intervene as all the officers, during whose tenure these appointments were made, have long retired.
The university that doles out these degree is called Hindi Sahitya Sammelan and is based in Allahabad. This has been functioning since the pre-Independence days and has been running two courses by the name of Vaidya Visharad and Ayurveda Ratan. It has given out franchises at a few places in Delhi and Haryana.
However, during the 1970s, some of the officials from Uttar Pradesh Health Ministry filed a case against this institution and pleaded the court to withdraw its affiliation on the pretext of unavailability of proper educational infrastructure required to give out these degrees. The court ordered that the degrees of Vaidya Visharad and Ayurveda Ratan given by this institution will only be valid till 1967.
The judgment was forced from the same day. It should be mentioned here that the then Registrar of Medical Council of India based in Uttar Pradesh was dismissed from his job because his degree was awarded after 1967 from the same institution. It was also evident in the reply given by the UP government against an RTI. It said that there has been no appointments of compounders and pharmacists on the basis of a degree awarded by the institution after 1967. Now the question arises that if the degree awarded by an institution based in UP is not valid in the state itself, how come MCD grants jobs based on the same degree.
The funniest part is that apparently one of the sources based in this institution actually told MCD that many of the degrees were fake and have been doled out by franchisees in lieu of Rs 500, completely ignoring the directive of the court. However, the MCD officials refused to listen. The appointments were made and MCD never checked these degrees for their authenticity. The photocopies of these degrees are with TSI and have been obtained under RTI. These degrees have been attested by the MCD officials. Clearly, money has changed hands.
We had asked for photocopies of the degrees of all the 120 employees but were given only 86. Out of these 86, barring two, all are from the same institution. It is impossible that this would have escaped the notice of the MCD officials during the selection process.
It is not surprising that Ayurveda hospitals and dispensaries run by MCD find very few takers. There are two hospitals in Delhi, one in Haiderpur and other in Ballimaran. They have 100 and 40 beds respectively. There are 118 dispensaries, two diabetes centres at Rajouri Garden and Aryapura, eight Panchakarma Hospital with facilities of Oil Massage, Steam Massage, Shirodhara and what not. There are 165 vaidyas working. The vaidyas take home anything between Rs 50,000 and 1,00,000 as salaries. The pharmacists have salaries between Rs 30,000 and 40,000. The budget runs into crores of rupees but have you ever visited one? Extremely unlikely.
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1 comment:
100% true. its a scam and all of us know it. kudos for exposing this scenario.
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