Gauhati HC Kohima Bench Closes PILs on Nagaland Health Services

DIMAPUR: The Gauhati High Court Kohima Bench (GHCKB) has closed a batch of Public Interest Litigations (PILs) regarding health services and infrastructure in Nagaland, directing the state to fill up vacancies for medical personnel.

“The State will take necessary steps for filling up the vacancies of medical personnel as per the procedure laid down by law,” stated the order issued by the Division Bench of Justice Parthivjyoti Saikia and Justice Budi Habung, disposing of the case.

During the hearing, the counsel for the petitioners submitted that the State had complied with all the requirements for which the PILs were filed and that there were no further instructions. However, they urged the court to direct the completion of the recruitment process for medical personnel as per the vacancies that had arisen.

In response, the counsel representing the Mission Director, National Health Mission (NHM) Nagaland, submitted that the government had already taken steps to fill the vacancies. After hearing arguments from both sides, the bench concurred that since the state had complied with all the requirements raised by the petitioners, the batch of PILs had become redundant.

First filed in December 2017, the 34 PILs, until 2020, played a key role in effecting various changes in the state’s health sector. Among other developments, the construction of the Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, the state’s lone medical college, was actively monitored and supervised, expediting its completion.

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