05/11/2025
*SERVICE DOCTORS AND POSTGRADUATE ASSOCIATION (SDPGA)*
Date: 05.11.2025
To
The Principal Secretary
Health and Family Welfare Department
Government of Tamil Nadu
Fort St. George,
Chennai – 600 009.
Sir,
Sub: Request to conduct transfer counselling after completion of Assistant to Associate Professor promotion counselling and creation of new Assistant Professor posts – Regarding.
Ref:
1. Ref. No. 100579/E3/1/2025-1, O/o DMER, dated 04.11.2025
2. Ref. No. 100579/E3/1/2025-2, O/o DMER, dated 04.11.2025
As per the above references, postgraduate courses are being started in 13 new medical colleges and hence instructed the Junior Residents of General Medicine, Paediatrics, General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Anaesthesia, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and the doctors of Radiation Oncology and Surgical Oncology departments to attend the transfer counselling compulsorily.
In several institutions, it has been observed that CML seniors are currently occupying Junior Resident posts, while CML juniors have been posted as Senior Residents or Assistant Professors.
To ensure fairness and appropriate cadre restructuring, all members may kindly be instructed to attend the transfer counselling, with CML seniors allowed first preference. This counselling process essentially serves as a restructuring exercise in these 13 colleges; therefore, priority should be accorded based on CML seniority.
Alternatively, Deans of institutions may kindly be instructed to accommodate CML seniors in SR/AP posts at the institutional level, thereby enabling CML juniors to participate in counselling accordingly.
Moreover, since new Assistant Professor posts are being created for departments initiated under the new Postgraduate (PG) programmes, a few Junior Residents may have the opportunity to occupy these new posts in the same station.
Hence, we, the SDPGA demands that the transfer counselling be conducted only after:
1. Completion of Assistant Professor to Associate Professor (2024-25 panel) promotion counselling, and
2. Creation of new Assistant Professor posts for the PG starting departments.
This sequence will ensure an equitable, transparent, and orderly process benefiting all faculty members across cadres.
Thanking you,
President / Secretary
Service Doctors and Postgraduate Association (SDPGA)
Copy to:
The Director of Medical Education and Research (DMER), Chennai – 10.