{"id":27839,"date":"2018-10-23T16:32:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27839"},"modified":"2018-10-23T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:02:12","slug":"state-can-stop-voluntary-retirement-of-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/state-can-stop-voluntary-retirement-of-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018State can stop voluntary retirement of doctors\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/state-can-stop-voluntary-retirement-of-doctors\/article24753955.ece\">\u2018State can stop voluntary retirement of doctors\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Recently, the Supreme Court has ruled that the State can stop government doctors from taking voluntary retirement in public interest.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>2. The verdict was based on an appeal by the Uttar Pradesh government against the Allahabad High Court\u2019s decision in case of voluntarily retirement of a doctor.<\/p>\n<p><u>3. The court held that :<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The fundamental right to retire is not above the right to save lives in a country where government hospitals cater to the poorest.<\/li>\n<li>The concept of public interest can also be invoked by the government when voluntary retirement sought by an employee will be against public interest.<\/li>\n<li>Public health was suffering from a scarcity of doctors.<\/li>\n<li>Qualified doctors did not join the public service at first, even if they did so, they chose voluntary retirement and went into lucrative private practice.<\/li>\n<li>The court held that poor could not be put in difficult situation by a paucity of specialists in government hospitals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. The State government had an obligation \u201cto make an endeavour under Article 47 to look after the provisions for health and nutrition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>5. The doctor, as citizens had certain fundamental duties under Article 51(A) towards their fellow citizens.<\/p>\n<p>6. The right to practice a profession under Article 19(1)(g) was subject to the interest of the general public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018State can stop voluntary retirement of doctors\u2019 News: Recently, the Supreme Court has ruled that the State can stop government doctors from taking voluntary retirement in public interest. Important facts: 2. The verdict was based on an appeal by the Uttar Pradesh government against the Allahabad High Court\u2019s decision in case of voluntarily retirement of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/state-can-stop-voluntary-retirement-of-doctors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018State can stop voluntary retirement of doctors\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704727178},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}