Question : PROMOTION OF NURSES UNDER MCD

(a) the details of the criteria fixed by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to promote `A` grade staff nurses to Sisters post;

(b) the total number of the said nurses promoted to the post of Sisters during each of the last three years and the current year along with the total length of their service;

(c) whether the MCD has any proposal to make recruitment for the Public Health Nurse (PHN) post and to promote the existing `A` grade staff nurses to Sisters post in its various hospitals;

(d) if so, the details thereof and the time by which PHN post and the said nurses of 1988 batch are likely to be recruited/ promoted; and

(e) if not, the reasons therefor?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI MULLAPPALLY RAMACHANDRAN)

(a): As per the Recruitment Regulations for the post of Nursing Sister, ‘A’ Grade Staff Nurses possessing 3 years service in the grade or ‘A’ Grade Staff Nurses with Diploma in Nursing Administration and possessing 2 years service in the grade are eligible for promotion to the grade of Nursing Sister/Sister.

(b): The Directorate of Local Bodies, Government of NCT of Delhi has informed that no such promotion has taken place during the last three years and the current year.

(c) to (e): Process has been initiated to promote ‘A’ Grade Staff Nurses to the post of Sister. A requisition for filling up 30 posts of Public Health Nurse has already been sent to the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board.