Chandigarh : The PGI faculty association held its general body meeting on 7th October 2015, where various issues pertaining to the faculty were discussed. The entire PGI faculty was greatly aggrieved in particular with the lackadaisical attitude of the PGI engineering department towards issues pertaining to PGI faculty. These include the long pending demands of the construction of faculty houses, proper maintenance of the faculty houses, OPD airconditioning, lack of proper parking space for faculty in Research blocks, and lack of female faculty changing room in the OT complex.
The PGI faculty condemned the callous attitude, lack of planning and execution by the engineering department towards these issues. All these issues are pending with engineering department and PGI administration since last many years. The PGI faculty association unanimously decided that they will serve an ultimatum to the PGI administration stating that there should be accountability in the engineering department and the Professor Incharge and Superintendent Hospital Engineer of the engineering department should accept their moral responsibility for the lack of execution of these important issues and should resign from their posts. The PGI administration should appoint people capable of executing the plans.
The PGI administration should also outsource the engineering work to outside agency or provide annual house maintenance allowance to faculty for the proper maintenance of houses. The association also decided that they will hold daily agitation in front of Director’s office till their demands are met. If these demands are not met, then the faculty association will boycott the Institute’s Research Day Function to be held on 17th October 2015. The PGI faculty association also decided unanimously that the PGI administration should work actively for the development of a world class new OT complex and should solve all the pending issues in the existing OT complex of Nehru Hospital.