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New Delhi: Despite a court order barring government officials from holding dual posts, the head of a premier medical institute in Chandigarh who is also a professor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and is a frontrunner to head the facility, has been given an extension in his latter post.
K.K. Talwar, who is believed to be close to Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and others in high places, has been granted a 14-month extension with retrospective effect by the health ministry. He was appointed director of the Chandigarh's Postgraduate Institute of Medical and Education Research (PGIMER) in 2004.
According to an order, the government "approved the extension of lien and extension in service of Dr K.K. Talwar, director PGIMER, Chandigarh to the post of professor of cardiology at this institute [AIIMS] for a further period with effect from 1.5.2007 to 31.7.2008."
The July 9, 2008 letter says the extension has the approval of AIIMS president - who is the health minister. "During the period of retention of lien, leave, salary and pension contribution will be paid by the PGIMER, Chandigarh to AIIMS," the letter further said. The letter, issued by AIIMS chief administrative officer Attar Singh, is in response to the ministry's letter of April 28 in this regard. Talwar would have anyway retired from AIIMS on April 30 this year as he reached the retirement age of 62.
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