Academics urge Health ministry to reinstate IIPS director facing defecation ‘axe’
G S Modur | 3 August 2023 | The Telegraph
An academic network has asked the Union health ministry to reinstate the suspended director of an institute involved in nationwide health surveys, saying
its suspension order seems to be related to survey findings that have challenged some of the Centre’s official narratives.
Last week, the health ministry suspended K.S. James, director of the International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, after a fact-finding committee set up by the ministry had found irregularities in 11 of 35 complaints relating to appointments, recruitment and compliance with a reservation roster in the IIPS.