Dehradun, March 1 -- Health and Medical Education Minister Dr Dhan Singh Rawat stated today that the state government had previously decided to fill the long-pending backlog vacancies of doctors in the Health and Family Welfare Department. As part of this initiative, the department sent a requisition to the State Medical Services Selection Board to recruit 276 Ordinary Grade Medical Officers under the Provincial Medical and Health Services Cadre. Following this, the Selection Board has now issued the recruitment advertisement.

Dr Rawat further elaborated on the category-wise distribution of these 276 backlog vacancies: Scheduled Caste (SC) - 183 posts; Scheduled Tribe (ST) - 6 posts; Other Backward Classes (OBC) - 59 posts; Economically ...