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PANAJI
The Goa Cabinet which met on Friday approved the creation of 10 posts of doctors in the four-year-old Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery in a bid to strengthen it.
The proposal was approved by the cabinet to create posts of one senior consultant, one consultant and three junior consultants in the department of cardiology; one post of consultant and one of junior consultant in the department of cardiovascular thoracic surgery and one post of consultant and two posts of junior consultants in the department of cardiac anaesthesiology.
The new appointees will be paid a remuneration of `1.50 lakh per month for the post of junior consultant, `2.50 lakh per month for a consultant and `4-lakh per month for a senior consultant.
The posts have been created on account of a huge demand for the services offered by the cardiology and cardiovascular thoracic surgery at the Goa Medical College and the department with its current strength is performing 250-300 procedures per month.
In another significant move, the Goa cabinet has also approved a hike in remuneration paid to lecturers and assistant lecturers on contract basis to bring it in tune with the scales paid as mandated by the seventh-pay commission.
Contract-based lecturers will now be paid a consolidated remuneration of `95,000 per month up from `55,000 per month they were paid when the salary was fixed under the sixth pay commission regime. Assistant lecturers will now be paid `80,000 per month up from `45,000 they were being paid prior
to this.
The government has said that the increase is proportionate with the implementation of the seventh pay commission guidelines.
