Thursday, December 28, 2017

NHM result fiasco: UP govt suspends HR head, revised results soon

Taking serious note of discrepancies in published results, Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh has ordered a probe and suspended Human Resources (HR) Head Sandeep Saxena, National Health Mission (NHM). This is in connection with glaring irregularities detected in results of written exams for the recruitment of contractual staff nurses and other staff by NHM in Uttar Pradesh.

Taking note of complaints by candidates, the Health Minister Dr Siddharth Nath Singh on Wednesday suspended HR Head of the NHM Sandeep Saxena and ordered an inquiry for result declared on December 22.

“It was lapse on part of the human resources department of the National Health Mission. We have placed the HR Head under suspension. New cut off marks are being worked out and the state government has ordered for releasing revised results as per the new cut off for all categories,” said Dr Singh.

Acting on the state government’s directions, the NHM Director Pankaj Kumar said that the new cut off marks for the general and reserved category candidates have been set and revised results would be declared shortly.

After media highlighed irregularities, the NHM Director admitted discrepancies in the results declared on December 22 and blamed the HR department. He said that the cut off for reserved candidates should not be as low as 3 out of 90. Similarly, he said that the cut off for the general category candidates was also very high.

“We are setting new cut off marks for both general and reserved category candidates to remove the anomalies. The result would be revised as per the new cut off and the revised results would be declared shortly,” said Durector.

After inviting applications from the candidates, the NHM had conducted a written exam on November 5 2017 for 4688 contractual staff, nurse, ANM, PRO and lab technicians etc. The result of the written exams was declared on December 22.

Many candidates were shocked when they found that reserved category candidate obtaining as low as 3 out of 90 marks were declared selected while general candidates getting 64 out of 90 were failed in the written exams.

The result soon went viral on social media with candidates alleging recruitment scam in NHM and foul play in evaluation of results. Candidates who failed to make the cut had threatened to file a case against the NHM authorities.

When contacted, the Principal Secretary Medical Health and Family Welfare Prashant Trivedi had initially denied any bungling in results but was forced to change tune later.

After much outrage the state government has decided to withheld the result and ordered the state unit of NHM to publish the revised result at the earliest after correcting all the alleged discrepancies.


The written exam for about 4688 contractual posts of Staff Nurse, ANM, PRO, Lab Technicians etc was held on November 5 2017 all over the state. The results for the same were declared on December 22. But after detection of irregularities, candidates are now raising questions over the evaluation of examination copies. The Principal Secretary Health Prashant Trivedi has assured to look into the anomalies brought to his knowledge. “I have issued directions to check results again,” said Trivedi.


Trivedi said that written exam was only a part of the selection process and only those who have cleared the interviews and other technical processes will be selected for the NHM. “The final result and selection process are yet to be completed,” he clarified.  “Only those candidates would be selected who cleared all the selection criterion. We will ensure that no bogus candidates gets job under the current NHM recruitment drive to fulfil existing vacancies,” he added.

Candidates have alleged glaring discrepancies in the results declared for recruitment of about 4700 nurses and other staff under the National Health Mission (NHM) in Uttar Pradesh.

In the results declared on December 22 for the written test, those who got 64 out of 90 marks were declared failed while those who obtained merely 3 and 8 marks were declared passed. The results went viral on social media indicating towards a possible scam in the recruitment process. 

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