Transfer counselling for staff nurses to go online

After the announcement was made by Health Minister C Vijaya Baskar to conduct transfer counselling for government staff nurses through online, the Deputy Director General and State Informatics Officer from the National Informatics Centre had proposed to conduct counselling through their transfer counselling software. The proposal was accepted by the Director of Medical and Rural Health Services and the officials of the department will be trained in handling the software for transfer counselling by the experts from the Informatics Centre.

The State Health Department has thus allocated about Rs 66 lakh for the development and maintenance of the software, which includes Rs 16 lakh in the first year for development and Rs 50 lakh for subsequent four years. The officials from the Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services say that the department will undertake the availability of the manpower for the project and will train the officials under the supervision of the experts.

The government staff nurses have been demanding online transfer counselling for past two years as they allege irregularities in the process of transfer counselling conducted offline. They also said that they remain unaware of the vacancies because there is no online notification issued. After government staff nurses staged a protest two years ago demanding online transfer counselling, the state health department decided to conduct the same from the next year.