The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday vacated a High Court order that stayed for three months a circular of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to recruit employees in 143 posts of a project under 4th Health Nutrition and Population Sector Programme (HNPSP).
Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice Md Nuruzzaman passed the order after hearing a petition filed by 16 job seekers.
Now there no bar for the authorities concerned to proceed the circular, said Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kazal who appeared in the Appellate Division for the 16 petitioners.
On September 4, the High Court stayed for three months the circular of the DGHS for recruitment in the project under the 4th HNPSP.
The High Court bench of Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman and Justice Mohammad Ali passed the order after hearing a writ petition filed by two candidates, who failed to apply in the desired posts of the circular due to complicated online application procedure.
The court also issued a rule upon the respondents to explain in four weeks as to why the arbitrary and online application procedure pursuant to the recruitment circular published on August 18, 2019, in a Bengali daily depriving the petitioners from applying for the posts of Medical Officer (Unani) and Registrar (Unani) respectively excluding the name of Hamdard University from the online system should not be declare illegal.
Secretaries of Health and Health Services Division of the Ministry of Health, Director General of Directorate General of Health Services, Chairman of UGC, Line Director of Alternative Medical Care (AMC) of DGHS and Chairman and Registrar of Bangladesh Board of Unani and Ayurvedic Systems of Medicine have to comply with the rule.
Barrister ABM Altaf Hossain appeared in the court on behalf of the petitioners while Deputy Attorney General Pratikar Chakma stood for the State.
Dr Abdullah Al Mamun and Dr Mahammad Younus, duo is the Bachelor of Unani Medicine and Surgery (BMUS) from Hamdard University, filed the writ petition with the High Court challenging the legality of online application procedure excluding the name of Hardard University from the online system.
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