Bhubaneswar: In another move to attract the best medical teachers for quality enhancement in medical education, the Odisha Government has enhanced the base remuneration for Tutors, Senior Residents (SRs), and Junior Residents (JRs) working in different medical colleges and hospitals (MCHs), said an official press release.
The government has also allowed place-based incentives to these medical college teachers posted in remote areas.
Secretary Health and Family Welfare Shalini Pandit issued these orders through a departmental notification. The notification mentioned that enhancement in base remuneration was allowed to draw more number of highly qualified teachers to the newly coming up MCHs.
Place-based remuneration was also considered necessary for incentivizing the teachers to serve in the MCHs located in remote and difficult areas.
For the place-based incentives, different areas of the State were clubbed up under 3 zones: Zone-A consisting of the districts like Koraput, Nabarangpur, Malkangiri, Rayagada, Bolangir, Nuapada, Kalahandi, Kandhamal; Zone-B consisting of Keonjhar, Boudh, Balasore, Gajpati, Sonepur, Deoghar, Bargarh, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Angul, Sundargarh, Mayurbhanj; and, Zone-C consisting of Dhenkanal, Puri, Nayagarh, Kendrapada, Jajpur, Bhadrak, and Jagatsinghpur districts. No place-based incentive was allowed for the districts like Cuttack, Khordha, and Ganjam.
Both the in-service and directly recruited faculties would get the place-based incentive. Enhanced base remuneration would be applicable for all Tutors, SRs, and JRs who were either direct candidates ( Post PG bound period) or engaged through advertisements when they were posted in any health institution.
The teaching faculty in MCHs expressed satisfaction over such decisions of the Government as it catered to their long-felt need.
The notification mentioned revised remuneration and place-based incentive as follows.
| Designation | Existing remuneration | Revised Remuneration for all districts | Revised place-based incentives | ||
| Zone A | Zone B | Zone C | |||
| Tutors with PG (Pre & Para Clinical departments) | Rs. 75,000 | Rs. 80,000 | Rs. 60,000 | Rs. 40,000 | Rs. 20,000 |
| Senior Resident | Rs. 65,000 | Rs. 75,000 | Rs. 50,000 | Rs. 30,000 | Rs. 10,000 |
| Junior Resident | Rs. 55,000 | Rs. 60,000 | Rs. 30,000 | Rs. 20,000 | Rs. 5,000 |
