After Ballia racket, jobs of 5K nurses in UP under lens

Latest recruitments will be scanned first; if anomalies found, more batches will be scrutinised, says D-G

- Gaurav Saigal

LUCKNOW: Appointments of over 5,000 nurses posted across UP over the last six years are under the scanner after a recruitment racket in Ballia was exposed recently, leading to an FIR against 15 nurses who had been working on forged appointment letters at different community health centres in the district.

"I have asked the director (nursing) to thoroughly scan documents of these 15 nurses and 1,354 who got jobs in November 2022 in various districts including Ballia," said director general (medical health), UP, Dr Ratan Pal Singh Suman on Thursday.

HT had on February 24 published a report on the recruitment racket. The probe is likely to incorporate the appointments of over 5,000 government nurses.

A total of 5768 nurses were appointed between 2019 and 2025, including 2388 in 2019, 2470 in 2022 and 275 in 2023. These three batches are likely to be under the scanner first.