35 contractual doctors sacked

and their contract agreements cancelled by Bihar government for not joining duty in prisons in the state.

According to an official notification issued by the home department 29 physicians and six specialist doctors have been sacked after they failed to join duty within the stipulated time as per contractual agreement with the state government.

The 35 doctors were required to join duty in the prisons by March 31, but most of them either did not join by April 16 or those who did so absented illegally from duty subsequently, it said.

The medicos were show caused but they did not reply prompting the state government to sack them, IG (Prison) Anand Kishore said.

The state government has recruited 28 doctors on contract and they have been asked to report to the headquarters to give option of place of joining, he said.

There were about 60-70 doctors serving in 55 prisons having 24,000 inmates.