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New Indian Express
4 days ago
- Health
- New Indian Express
JIPMER launches Capacity Building Unit, tele-ambulance service
PUDUCHERRY: The Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER) has taken a significant step toward transforming public service delivery by establishing its own Capacity Building Unit (CBU) under the Mission Karmayogi, a flagship initiative of the Government of India. The mission is steered by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) and the Capacity Building Commission (CBC), and aims to build a citizen-centric, accountable, and service-oriented civil service through a shift from rule-based to role-based human resource practices, a release said. Dr Stuti Verma, consultant, Capacity Building, Training Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, said that Mission Karmayogi aims to transform the capacity and mindset of public servants by promoting a citizen-centric, accountable, and service-oriented workforce rooted in Indian values. Training modules will also include aspects such as stress management and innovative, solution-oriented thinking. The institute also introduced 'JIPMER Tele-Ambulance Service', equipped with telemedicine technology, which allows patients involved in accidents to be examined and treated online by Emergency Medical Service (EMS) doctors before being transported to the hospital.
The Hindu
4 days ago
- Politics
- The Hindu
DMK to stage protest against centralised recruitment for Jipmer jobs
Leader of Opposition and DMK convenor R. Siva said his party would stage a protest in front of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (Jipmer) on Friday against the practice of imposing user fee for services and the centralised recruiting policy that would deepen the marginalisation of local job-seekers. In a statement, Mr. Siva expressed concern that, despite the long-pending demand for increased local representation, the institution's adoption of the Common Recruitment Examination (CRE) model, based on the AIIMS in Delhi, would further reduce employment prospects for candidates from the region. The DMK leader also took exception to the bilingual (Hindi and English) nature of entrance tests and the special age relaxation offered to Union Government employees, stating that these measures placed Tamil and English-speaking local candidates at a clear disadvantage. He called upon Jipmer authorities to revert to the earlier recruitment system for nursing and Group B and C posts in place of the CRE, and to reserved 50% of posts for domicile job aspirants. According to the DMK leader, Jipmer had, on July 22, announced that recruitment to 454 vacancies for nursing officers, 446 in Puducherry and eight in Yanam, would be held through CRE. He pointed out that when Jipmer conducted its recruitments, many local aspirants had managed to secure remunerative job positions. However, the adoption of a common entrance test will result in local job avenues being opened to candidates across India. 'We will oppose a recruitment model that allows candidates who do not know the local language to enter jobs that require dealing with primarily poor patients and is exclusionary for the unemployed youth in the region', he said. Jipmer, which owes a large part of its success to the access to Puducherry's land, water, and power, should not turn its back on the local people now, Mr. Siva said.
