JIPMER employees may get more time for service option

The employees of Puducherry-based medical college, JIPMER, may get more time to decide whether they want to remain with the autonomous institute or opt out of it and continue with the Central Government.

The Bill to amend the existing Act to offer two-and-a-half years to employees for fresh option instead of earlier one year, was introduced in Rajya Sabha by Minister of State for Health Dinesh Trivedi.

The Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry (Amendment) Bill, 2010 also provides an opportunity to exercise fresh option to those employees who had already made a choice.

Those already transferred would not be given the opportunity.

The institute which was earlier governed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in the Central Government was granted autonomy on July 14, 2008