Recognition of 40 medical colleges over for violation of rules, 100 more on radar

New Delhi: Nearly 40 medical colleges across the country have been deaffiliated in the last two months for allegedly not following the standards set by the National Medical Commission (NMC). Official sources gave this information on Tuesday. He said that around 100 more medical colleges in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Assam, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry and West Bengal may also face similar action.

An official source said the colleges were not following the prescribed norms and several lapses related to CCTV cameras, Aadhaar-linked biometric attendance procedures and faculty rolls were found during the inspection conducted by the commission.

According to government statistics, since 2014, there has been a significant increase in the number of medical colleges.

Minister of State for Health Bharti Praveen Pawar told the Rajya Sabha in February that there has been a 69 per cent increase in medical colleges from 387 before 2014.

Also, there has been a 94 per cent increase in MBBS seats from 51,348 before 2014 to 99,763 now and a 107 per cent increase in PG seats from 31,185 before 2014 to 64,559 now.

He had said that to increase the number of doctors in the country, the government has increased the number of medical colleges and then increased the MBBS seats.

Measures and steps taken by the government to increase the number of medical seats in the country include a centrally sponsored scheme for setting up new medical colleges by upgrading district/referral hospitals, under which 94 out of 157 new medical colleges have already come up. are working. allowed.

Reacting to the de-recognition of medical colleges, experts in the medical field said that the NMC is largely dependent on the Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance system, for which it considers only those teachers who work from 8 am to 2 pm. are on duty till 10:00 p.m. during the day.

“But doctors’ working hours are not fixed. They have to work in emergency and night shifts as well. Hence NMC’s strictness with working hours has created this issue. Such micro-management of medical colleges is not practical And NMC needs it.” One has to be flexible for such issues,” said an expert.

Another expert said, “The NMC is derecognising medical colleges considering deficiencies. At the same time, the NMC has also allowed registration of students in such colleges, which is a contradiction. Moreover, such experiments India’s image is getting tarnished in the world. Globally because India is the biggest supplier of doctors and if such cases come to light, the world will lose faith in Indian doctors.”