Bihar medical colleges' eight doctors get shortlisted for ED post at AIIMS

Eight doctors from Bihar medical colleges are among the 112 doctors selected for the Executive Director (ED) post at seven AIIMS across India.

The Executive Director (ED) post at seven AIIMS across the country is meant to downgrade the post of 'Directors' to 'Executive Directors' at all AIIMS in India except the one in New Delhi, which is the premier medical college in India and is the oldest and most reputed AIIMS.

Total 112 doctors are selected for these ED posts, and out of these, eight doctors are from medical colleges in Bihar that include the heads of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Patna.

These ED posts will also provide an extended tenure of five years to the doctors, hence most heads of medical institutions including the directors of AIIMS are applying for these posts despite that it will provide a notch lower than the pay scale they are already getting being the heads of the medical colleges.

“The executive directors will head the institution. Their administrative powers will remain the same as of the present director, though the financial powers have been reduced. The pay scale, however, has been downgraded from level 17 to 15,” said a senior functionary at AIIMS Patna, as reported by Hindustan Times.

Among the eight selected doctors from Bihar, seven are from the government medical colleges and one from a private college. Three are from AIIMS Patna, four are from IGIMS and one from the private college - Katihar Medical College.

The ED posts were advertised by the ministry of health and family welfare for seven AIIMS in Patna and Darbhanga (both in Bihar), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Guwahati (Assam) and Awantipora (Jammu & Kashmir), Bhubaneswar (Odisha), and Rishikesh (Uttarakhand).

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