Tamil Nadu Medical Service - Counselling For Transfer and Promotion - Revised Guidelines Issued
Tamil Nadu Medical Service - Counselling For Transfer and Promotion - Revised Guidelines Issued
Tamil Nadu Medical Service - Counselling For Transfer and Promotion - Revised Guidelines Issued
Tamil Nadu Medical Service - Counselling for transfer and promotion - Revised
guidelines issued.
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Health and Family Welfare (A1) Department
Read:
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ORDER:
2. The Government again examined the matter and have decided to extend the
salient features of the guidelines being followed in transfer and promotion of teachers in
Education department to the Health and Family Welfare Department. They accordingly
direct that the revised guidelines laid down in the Annexure to this order shall be
followed for conducting counselling for promotion / transfer of the medical para medical
and non-medical staff under the administrative control of the Health and Family Welfare
Department with immediate effect.
V.K.SUBBURAJ
SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT
To,
/Forwarded by order/
SECTION OFFICER
ANNEXURE
1. Periodicity of Counselling:
1.1 Counselling for transfer within the Directorate shall be held once
in a year during May.
1.3 Counselling for the post of Nurses for transfer and promotion
shall be conducted jointly by the Director of Medical Education
and the Director of Medical and Rural Health Services.
4.3 Vacancies arising up to the end of April shall be taken into account
for transfer and promotion Counselling
5.3 In the case of Primary Health Centres, (a) Staff from a District where
the total vacancies in that category (Medical Officers/Para Medical
Staff) in the District are 10% or more; (b) staff from a Primary Health
Centre where there is already a vacancy; (c) a lady Medical Officer
from a Primary Health Centre where the posts of all other Medical
Officers are vacant.
5.4 Medical Officers/ Staff who were transferred earlier but had
gone on leave without joining there.
cancelled the posting on transfer for their own reason. They are
5.7 Medical Officers, Para Medical Staff and Staff Nurse who have
not completed one year after their last Counselling, excluding the
initial appointment.
Dispensaries.
5.9 Medical Officers and Para Medical Staff who are newly recruited
Districts where there are more vacancies, viz., more than 15% in
5.10 As pointed out in para 5.7 above, any person who is posted to a
she is not eligible to attend any counselling till that period is over.
need arises.
5.11 In the interest of maintaining the quality of the Medical
paragraphs 5.1 to 5.7 are not issued the clearance to attend the
counselling.
5.13 In the case of Primary Health Centres, where there are only 2
8.1 Along with the consolidated list of vacancies, the schedule and
venue for counselling should be published in the official website of
the Health Department (viz., www.tnhealth.org) and in the Notice
Boards of all the Medical Institutions by the 7th of the previous
month, viz., 7th April for the Counselling to be held in May, by 7th
May for the Counselling to be held in June.
9.1 All persons seeking transfers should bring their applications duly
certified by the Head of Office for attending counselling.
Production of fraudulent certificate will be viewed seriously and is
liable for disciplinary action/suspension.
10.4 If a person eligible for promotion does not relinquish his right, but
chooses to absent himself on the day of Counselling, or if he
attends the Counselling but fails to relinquish, it shall be deemed
that he is willing to be considered for promotion and shall be
promoted and posted to one of the vacancies at the discretion of
the Director Government. If he does not join the new post, it will
be viewed as an act of indiscipline disobedience and dereliction of
duty entailing disciplinary action.
10.5 For transfer within the Directorate, Station Seniority will be the
criterion for priority whereas in the case of inter Directorate
transfers, service seniority will be criteria for priority.
10.6 For counting station seniority, actual period of duty in the present
posting alone will be counted, excluding period spent on leave like
Earned leave, Medical Leave, Extra-ordinary leave etc., and period
of unauthorised absence.