The Maharashtra Transfer Act allows employees to serve only three years at a workplace unless exceptions apply. However, numerous staff at Pune's BJ Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital have not adhered to this mandate, with some staying for more than a decade. PUNE: The state’s 2005 legislation governing transfers stipulates that an employee cannot continue at a workplace for more than three years, except where govt allows them a longer time on ‘humanitarian’ grounds.
The objective, experts say, is to regulate transfers of govt servants, prevent delays in discharge of duties, and avoid monopoly. However, those working with BJ Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital (BJMC and SGH), the city’s prestigious tertiary care facility, seem to have escaped the law’s ambit. An RTI response filed by TOI reveals there are many Classes I, II, and III employees who have clung to their positions for more than 10 years and in some cases, 25 years.
This blatant violation of the Maharashtra Govt Servants Regulations of Transfers and Prevention of Delay in Discharge of Official Duties Act, more commonly known as the ‘Transfer Act’, could not have been better highlighted than at a time when the hospital is battling bad publicity and a barrage of criticism on account of the Porsche Taycan crash case . All those involved in swapping the teenage driver’s blood sample with that of his mother’s — head of forensic sciences department Dr Ajay Taware, casualty medical o.