KARACHI, May 30: The candidates, rejected in interviews and selection process for the posts of assistant professors, associate professors and professors in the Dow University of Health Sciences alleged numerous injustices and irregularities in the results and urged for a full scale inquiry at the earliest.
The rejected candidates also appealed to President Pervaiz Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to intervene and ensure merit and seniority as the criteria for the appointments in the DUHS.
Speaking at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Monday, some 10 such candidates on behalf of their other colleagues, said criteria of selection was not announced and key posts of some chairpersons and deans were given to biased persons and an obscure marking scheme was developed, whereby persons were declared fail without any appropriate assessment.
They said constitution of the selection boards were defective. To favour the chosen few, either subject experts were not consulted as per the DUHS charter, or were consulted the biased persons. The merit lists were altered to misguide the unprejudiced members of the selection board, they argued.
“These lapses are most visible in some posts eg professor of gynae, ophthalmology, orthopaedics and pathology. In the case of biochemistry a post was announced but interview calls were not given to the suitable, available candidates. In the junior categories, outstanding candidates were deliberately overlooked and persons in their mid and late fifties were chosen, the age bar being crossed by 20 years (for example wife of DUHS vice-chancellor),” they added.—PPI
