Nurse Recruitment Scam: Big Challenge before GRMC Gwalior to Tackle Possible Third Wave of COVID-19, while It Becomes Haunt of Massive Corruption

BHOPAL / Amid the possible surge in the Covid-19 cases in Madhya Pradesh, the oldest medical college of the state which is the largest health care center for the Gwalior and Chambal division also has allegedly become a perch for corruption.

How can Gajra Raja medical college(GRMC) Gwalior that played a crucial role to handle the situation during the previous two waves of the pandemic tackle the possible third wave of coronavirus infection? while its dean engages in saving himself and his colleagues who are allegedly involved in a massive scam of staff nurse recruitment.

Around 500 staff nurses including 278 in Gwalior have been recruited in Datia and GRMC the medical colleges through an exam conducted by MP Online. Both the medical colleges have given appointments to the applicants while ignoring the rules and regulations made for reserved categories by the general administration department and the guidelines of the high court. It is said that a huge amount has been made transactions in this alleged corruption by both the deans of Gwalior and Datia medical colleges, Dr. Sameer Gupta and Dr. Rajesh Gour respectively.

According to sources, the appointment orders of staff nurses, paramedical staff, and scientists, have been released without taking the signatures of all the members of recruitment and scrutinizing committees. Ironically, the representative of the divisional commissioner who is an ex officio chairman of the autonomous body of the medical college has not been taken her signature.

The department of medical education has found irregularities in the appointment and given instructions to its commissioner for conducting a prob in the matter.

Taking action in the matter, the department has removed the dean of Datia medical college and stayed the recruitment of nursing, paramedical and non-education staff till further order while the dean of GRMC has not been shaken from the post so far in the same matter.
According to sources, a union minister who belongs Gwalior-Chambal region is protecting the dean, Gupta.

Around 500 staff nurses including 278 in Gwalior have been recruited in both the medical colleges through an exam conducted by MP Online.
Additional chief secretary (ACS) medical education instructed the commissioner of the department to examine the staff nurses’ recruitment-related documents of both the medical colleges, Gwalior and Datia while chairing a review meeting held on 12 October. The undersecretary of the department on 8 November wrote a letter in this regard to the commissioner.

After examining the documents commissioner and secretary of the medical education department, Nishant Warbade had found irregularities of violating the rules of the general administration department made for reserved categories of Schedule Cast, Schedule Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Economical Weaker Sections. The commissioner of Medical Education (CME) wrote a letter on 24 November to the divisional commissioner of Gwalior.

According to sources, the wife of the dean of GRMC Gwalior, Sameer Gupta runs a 150-bedded private hospital, namely ‘Link Hospital’ in the city with a partnership of a Union minister who is related to the Gwalior region. Sources also said that Gupta says in his friend circle that no one can shake him from the post as long as the Union minister is doing favor him.

The hospital was inaugurated by Union Minister for Agriculture and MP from the Morena constituency Narendra Singh Tomar last year.

The director ME had sought a reply from the dean in a letter over the issue of deciding accountability, causes of irregularities, and options for the correction.

In the letter, CME said SC, ST, OBC and EWS candidates who have got a place in the merit list have not been included in the unreserved list, rather they have been inducted in the reserved categories lists.

Gwalior medical college dean Gupta has given a funny response in the reply writing that leftovers who were not selected even after they secured high marks due to make irregularities in reserved categories lists, would be given a chance on a priority basis by 2029.

A large-scale corruption was also made in the appointment of candidates who were selected from the waiting list, those candidates who were on below places have been selected while those candidates who were on the top position did not get the job.