PM-led selection committee seeks more names for AIIMS Director post

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed by the prime minister has sought a wider panel of names for the post of director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi.

While All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi is still in the process of finalising a name for the new Director, the PM-led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has sought a wider panel of names for the post, said official sources.

The names of three doctors, short-listed by a search-cum-selection committee and subsequently approved by the Institute Body, the top decision-making body of the AIIMS, were sent to the ACC for final approval in March 2022. The three AIIMS doctors whose names were recommended earlier were Nikhil Tandon, head of the department of endocrinology; Rajesh Malhotra, chief of AIIMS Trauma Centre and the head of the department of orthopaedics; and Pramod Garg, professor in the gastroenterology department.

The tenure of the incumbent AIIMS director, Dr Randeep Guleria was about to end on March 24 but it was extended by three months.  

ACC seeks instant proposal with more names

"The Competent Authority in the ACC has directed to return the instant proposal with the request to send a wider panel of names for consideration of the ACC," said the official source, as reported by Indian Express.

The four-member search-cum-selection committee has been assigned the task of short-listing names for the AIIMS director's post and the committee is headed by Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan. Apart from Bhushan, the committee includes Secretary of Department of Biotechnology Rajesh S Gokhale, Principal Scientific Advisor to the government K Vijay Raghavan, and Delhi University vice-chancellor Yogesh Singh.

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