CAT modifies order, clears desks for promotions in GMC-J

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 16: A Bench of Central Administrative Tribunal, Jammu comprising Member (J) Rajinder Singh Dogra and Member (A) Ram Mohan Johri has modified its earlier order dated January 29, 2025 whereby the process of promotion against all faculty positions in all the departments/disciplines of Government Medical College Jammu had been stayed.
After hearing Advocate Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed for 10 aggrieved members of various faculties of GMC, Jammu whereas Senior Advocate Abhinav Sharma for the applicants (petitioners) and AAG Sudesh Magotra appearing for Health and Medical Education Department, the CAT modified its interim order dated January 29, 2025 by providing that the Government shall be at liberty to make promotions to the posts of Associate Professors and Professors in GMC, Jammu.
However, the Government shall not place/promote/appoint any Professor not confirmed by DPC/PSC after 01-01-2016 as Professor, to the post of Principal GMC, Jammu or by lateral entry in any of the newly established Govt Medical Colleges.
When this matter came up for hearing, Advocate S S Ahmed appearing in Miscellaneous Application No. 790 of 2025 moved on behalf of Dr Mohammad Farooq Butt (Associate Professor, Orthopedics), Dr Manish Singh (Assistant Professor, Orthopedics), Dr Anuj Bhatti (Associate Professor, Pediatrics), Dr Renu Wakhloo (Associate Professor, Anesthesia), Dr Suman Kumar Kotwal (Assistant Professor, Endocrinology), Dr Jang Bahadur Singh (Assistant Professor, Medicine), Dr Shahzad Ahmed Qureshi (Assistant Professor, Medicine), Dr Gurmeet Singh (Associate Professor, Medicine), Dr Sanjeev Bhat (Associate Professor, Medicine) and Dr Showkat Mahmood Chowdry (Assistant Professor, Medicine) contended that the petitioners/applicants namely Dr Rahul Sharma, Dr Sandeep Kour and Dr Swaran Singh Katoch belong to Department of Radiation Oncology (Radiotherapy) GMC, Jammu and by virtue of interim order dated 29-01-2025, the promotion of all the disciplines in GMC, Jammu have been stayed and the applicants and other faculty members of GMC, Jammu have been prejudiced and their promotions have been stalled without hearing them.
Advocate Ahmed vehemently argued that no case was set up for stalling the promotions in all the Disciplines by the three applicants/petitioners and for securing the ends of justice, the interim order dated 29-01-2025 is required to be modified.
On the other hand, Senior Advocate Abhinav Sharma appearing for the three applicants belonging to Discipline of Radiation Oncology (Radiotherapy) vehemently argued that Juniors to Dr Rahul Sharma, who were confirmed as Associate Professors with effect from 01-01-2013 have been posted as Principals in various Govt Medical Colleges in UT of J&K thereby causing irreparable loss to the service career of the three faculty members of Radiation Oncology (Radiotherapy).
He submitted that for balancing the equities, the promotion to the post of Principal GMC, Jammu and other Medical Colleges is required to be stayed particularly of those Professors who have not been confirmed by DPC/PSC after 01-01-2016 as Professor, because Dr Rahul Sharma was confirmed as Associate Professor on 01-01-2013.

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