DoNER Minister brings up 103 vacancies at NEIGRIHMS with Azad

GANGTOK, 06 July: “During my visit to Shillong on 2nd-3rd July 2011, I found that the environment in NEIGRIHMS is vitiated due to inadequate faculty and the resultant agitation by students,” Bijoy Krishna Handique, Minister of DoNER, stated in his letter to Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, today.
Mr. Handique has written to the Union Health Minister seeking the latter’s intervention to fill the 103 faculty positions lying vacant at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong.
Mr. Handique mentioned that out of 137 posts at the institute, only 34 have reportedly been filled, which has resulted in dislocation of academic and healthcare activities in the Institute. He also said that this matter was leading to agitations by students demanding posting of adequate number of faculty.