NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to Centre, all states, and Medical Council of India (MCI) on a plea seeking direction to the authorities to ensure that the medical institutes do not grant specialised postgraduate degrees which are not recognised by the MCI and other government bodies or do not admit students to such courses.
The petition challenged non-recognition of the specialised postgraduate courses in MD/MS/Diplomas despite the fact that government medical colleges through affiliated universities award such degrees.
A bench comprising Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan and Justice RV Raveendran also sought replies from the UGC, UPSC
, National Board of Examinations and various state public service commissions on a petition filed by 56 medical practitioners whose postgraduate degrees awarded by the various government medical colleges were not recognised by the council and other government bodies.
Senior Counsel RS Sodhi and advocate Monika Gusain appearing for the petitioners said, while the universities and government medical colleges are awarding postgraduate medical degrees to doctors, the other state instrumentalities like PGIMER
, Chandigarh and Union Public Service Commission are not recognising such degrees.
It is the duty of the MCI to supervise that all the degrees being awarded by all the medical colleges across the country are recognised, said petitioners.
“Majority of the MS/MD degrees awarded by the government medical colleges in India are not recognised by the MCI though the government medical colleges awarding such degrees are at the time of inception given recognition by the MCI,” said the petition.
“If the Medical Council de-recognises institutions, courses or seats, then it means that those institutions, those courses or those seats as the case might be, are not fit for churning out qualified doctors. There has to be a check on these institutions suffering from deficiencies so that they do not admit students or grant them degrees who have inbuilt and hidden incapacity and inadequacy and which would forever in future be of definite danger to the citizens of India at large,” said the petition.
The petition added that the problem of awarding of unrecognised medical degrees and diplomas by the universities is prevalent throughout the country. These unrecognised medical degrees are a common feature in almost all the medical specialities and the main reason for such prevalence seems to be failure of MCI to keep vigil on the proliferating medical education in the country.
The petitioners said that when they entered into correspondence with their respective college authorities, they were told that their postgraduate degrees were recognised. But after applying for the jobs, they were not allowed to appear for the interview. It clearly amounts to inconsistent stands of various government bodies on the issue, submitted petitioner doctors.
Petitioner Dr Mukesh Yadav, MD in Forensic
Medicine from GSVM Medical College, Kanpur, was not allowed to appear for interview by UPSC
. Another petitioner Dr AK Singh MD (Forensic
Medicine), MLN Medical College, Allahabad, was not permitted to appear for interview by BHU
, Varanasi, stated the petition, citing many such examples.
The petition sought direction of the apex court to the MCI to furnish details of all the degrees being awarded by all the medical colleges of the country and details of degrees and colleges not recognised by the MCI, UPSC
and other government bodies.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to Centre, all states, and Medical Council of India (MCI) on a plea seeking direction to the authorities to ensure that the medical institutes do not grant specialised postgraduate degrees which are not recognised by the MCI and other government bodies or do not admit students to such courses.
Let us list all the degree courses which are derecognised now but still admitting students in various Medical colleges in TamilNadu
.They are at risk for the next year counselling
MD RADIODIAGNOSIS IN MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE-not recognised by mci
Keep this thread alive by contributing what u know so that we can get a list of non recognised degrees in TamilNadu
Do you mean to say that the only not recognised Seats like Radio, Psychiatry
are marked for Service Candidates
If then, do all those candidates who have spend lakhs filing cases against this exclusive reservation know that they are fighting for a NON RECOGNISED Seat
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Did all those "anonymous" doctors who asked for money even without revealing their name, college, batch etc explain that the case is for NON RECOGNISED Seats
CAG Report Exposes Flaws In Health And Civic Spheres
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: Medical education in Tamil Nadu is probably the worst among the southern states, going by the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). Medical colleges in the state have failed to increase the intake of students to meet the growing demand for doctors and the MGR Medical University has been flayed for offering several courses which are not recognised by the Medical Council of India (MCI)
The report found 58 courses, many of them at the post graduate level, being conducted without recognition by the MCI.
“In seven government colleges, 27 courses were not inspected and continuous provisional affiliation was not granted. One post graduate institute in Chennai was not affiliated to Dr MGR Medical University as required under the University Act. This was mainly due to non-awarding of UGC scales and fewer promotional opportunities,” it said.
“There was shortage of teaching faculty and lack of infrastructure in medical colleges, affecting the quality of medical education.”
“The inefficiency of the Dr MGR Medical University led to University Grants Commission (UGC) not recognising and funding its administrative and research work. The University could only offer a lower scale of pay than the UGC scale and so could not attract qualified personnel. Government also failed to extend its support to persons and colleges for conducting research,” the CAG said.
The report said only 14% to 16% of the aspirants for PG courses got admission during 2002-07 because of the limited availability of seats.
Tamil Nadu stood last among the four southern states with just one medical seat for a population of 21,782, while Karnataka had a seat per 12,108 persons. Kerala provided one seat for a population of 15,531 and Andhra
Pradesh had one medical seat for every 19,798 persons.
The total intake capacity of MBBS seats in the state in 2007 was only 2,865 in the existing 14 government medical colleges and 11 private medical colleges. “The number of MBBS seats in the state is low compared with the 65,000 seats available in engineering colleges, in spite of a gradual increase of 800 seats during 2003-07 by establishing three new government medical colleges and four private medical colleges,” the report stated.
When contacted, MGR Medical University vice chancellor K Meer Mustafa Hussein shifted the blame to the medical colleges. The department concerned is responsible for the courses not getting MCI recognition. “When private medical colleges with less infrastructure get recognition, why not government colleges?” he said.
POOR DIAGNOSIS
58 courses in 9 government colleges and 9 private medical institutions not recognised by MCI
The inefficiency of the Dr MGR Medical University led to University Grants Commission (UGC) not recognising and funding its administrative and research work
Tamil Nadu stood last among the four southern states with just one medical seat for a population of 21,782
The total number of seats available in the medical colleges in the state in 2007 was only 2,865 as against the 65,000 seats available for engineering in Tamil Nadu.
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