Teaching doctors seek peripheral allowance, special transfer policy

The Telangana Teaching Government Doctors Association (TTGDA) has urged the State government to address long-pending demands, including peripheral medical college allowances, a special transfer policy, and retirement benefits.

Hyderabad: The members of Telangana Teaching Government Doctors Association (TTGDA) on Thursday urged the State government to resolve their long-pending issues at the earliest.

In a general body meeting, the members of the TTGDA decided to launch a more aggressive and decisive approach to resolve long-pending issues. A decision on holding daylong protests in all government hospitals will be announced soon, TTGDA said.

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The TTGDA’s main demand is implementation of peripheral medical college allowance for all doctors engaged in government medical colleges outside Hyderabad, in line with the Rural Service Allowance recommended by the Parliamentary Standing Committee. The current tribal-area grading system is inadequate and does not reflect ground realities; for instance, remote colleges in Asifabad and Bhupalpally are excluded under the present classification, they said.

The TTGDA members also made a strong demand for a special transfer policy, as recent counselling to take up transfers failed to deliver justice, even to faculty with more than nine years of service.

The TTGDA expressed dissatisfaction with the existing UGC pay scales, as teaching doctors are neither governed fully by State service rules nor granted complete UGC norms and benefits.

The State Government has extended EL (earned leave) encashment to NIMS faculty but a similar facility is not available for faculty in government medical colleges.

“There is widespread anxiety regarding retirement benefits. The members of TTGDA requested direct credit of GPF/CPS contributions to employees, enabling transparency and personal financial control and demanding to clear UGC/DA arrears immediately,” TTGDA said.