SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has cancelled the engagement of Dr Muzammil Nazir as Associate Professor in the Department of Community Medicine at Government Medical College (GMC), Handwara, citing non-compliance with the terms governing academic arrangements.
The action was ordered under Government Order No. 590-JK(HME) of 2026, issued by the Health and Medical Education Department on Wednesday. The order said Dr Nazir’s engagement, made under the academic arrangement provisions of S.O. 364 of 2020, would stand cancelled ab initio.
According to the order, Dr Nazir joined GMC Handwara on January 13, 2026, but did not subsequently attend his assigned duties, as reported by the Principal of the medical college.
The department said he was asked to resume duties through a communication issued on February 6. However, he submitted his resignation the following day without serving the mandatory notice period prescribed under S.O. 364 of 2020.
After examining the matter, the department concluded that Dr Nazir had neither performed his assigned duties after joining nor fulfilled the conditions applicable to resignation under the governing rules.
S.O. 364 of 2020 prescribes the terms and conditions for engaging faculty in government medical colleges on an academic arrangement basis, including provisions related to resignation and the required notice period.
