The Provincial Ayurveda and Yunani Chikitsa Sewa Sangh (PAYCSS), the association of ayurveda and Yunani doctors of state health services has demanded Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) on the post of Director of the department. A delegation of the association headed by state general secretary, Hardev Singh Rawat met the AYUSH minister, Harak Singh Rawat recently. In the meeting Hardev Singh Rawat told the Minister that present Director, Dr Arun Kumar Tripathi lacks the necessary eligibility for the coveted post. The delegation told The Minister that in absence of a full time Director departmental promotions are being affected and the availability and quality of medicines in remote areas is being compromised. The members of the association said that the director is also discharging additional responsibility of drug controller, licensing officer, director and registrar of Uttarakhand Ayurveda University due to which he remains busy. It is affecting his functioning and delay in implementing the provisions of all important Non Practice Allowance (NPA) is an example of this overburden of work, the delegation alleged.
The issues like NPA, Dynamic Assured Career Progression (DACP), DPC, ACP and Post Graduate (PG) allowance were also discussed in the meeting.