IIT faculty protests penalty on doctors

Updated on: Friday, September 03, 2010

More than a year after the death of Rohit Kumar of IIT, Kharagpur, the institute’s decision to penalise two doctors despite a clean chit by the medical inquiry team has outraged the IIT faculty. IIT Teachers’ Association plans to request the board of governors (BoG) to revoke the penalty.

The BoG has reportedly stopped five increments without cumulative effect to doctors N K Som and Dharmasheel Gupta. The faculty maintains that the penalty imposed on the doctors is unjust as Kumar died primarily due to infrastructural lapses for which the institute’s hospital management is responsible.

The faculty will bring to BoG’s notice that no action has been taken against Madhusudan Chakraborty, the then chairman of hospital management committee and deputy director of the institute. A two member inquiry committee of Justice Malay Kumar Basu and former director of IIM Calcutta Subir Chowdhury had stated that Chakraborty should have been “more proactive in the administration of the hospital”. In the past one year, Chakraborty went on to become the director of IIT, Bhubaneswar.

IIT faculty protests penalty on doctors

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