Tamil Nadu Health Officials Respond to Disciplinary Charges Over Appointment Irregularities
Joint Director and three staff answer allegations of procedural lapses in filling cook and laundry assistant posts.
2 reports on this incident · first at Sep 8, 2026, 11:54 p.m. ET
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Sep 8, 2026, 11:54 p.m. ETFirst report
Four Tamil Nadu health officials face disciplinary action over alleged irregularities in cook, laundry assistant appointments
The Director of Medical and Rural Health Services (DMS) has initiated disciplinary action against four health officials over alleged irregularities in the filling of around six cook and laundry assistant posts.
The respondents are Joint Director of Health Services (Tenkasi) Dr P Premalatha, office superintendents R Meena and M Loganayahi, and Assistant G Nithya. The charges include violation of communal rotation, ignoring advice of the Employment Department, procedural lapses such as not following communal rotation separately, lack of records, calling more candidates than noted, rejecting applications without reasons, prescribing wrong qualification, missing office-note pages, and appointment order signed by wrong authority.
The matter is at the charging stage, and no final decision has been made. The proceedings are administrative in nature.
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