National, 1 June: As many as 40 medical colleges in India have lost their recognition in the last two months due to non-compliance with the National Medical Commission’s rules. Now more than 100 more medical colleges are likely to lose recognition of NMC.
According to a report, NMC noted that the decision was taken due to “non-compliance of rules”. These colleges have lost recognition due to three main reasons such as lapses in the safety system of the colleges and cctv cameras, errors in Aadhaar card-based biometric attendance and vacancies of professor posts in most colleges.
Most of the colleges that are likely to lose recognition are: Puducherry, Gujarat, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Tripura, West Bengal and Assam. It may be recalled that a college more than a century old in Arunachal Pradesh and a reputed Stanley Medical College in Tamil Nadu have already lost the recognition of NMC.
However, Dr Rajeev Sood of NMC said medical colleges should not be worried about this.
The FTI spoke to doctors and public health experts to understand the response of the drive on medical colleges.
According to government data, the number of medical colleges in the country has increased since 2014. To increase the number of doctors in the country, the government has increased the number of medical colleges and subsequently increased MBBS seats, health minister Pawar said. Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Praveen Pawar had told the Rajya Sabha in February that the number of medical colleges in the country has increased by 69 per cent since 2014. The number of medical colleges has increased from 387 to 654 since 2014.
Also, MBBS seats have increased by 94 per cent from 51,348 before 2014 to 99,763 so far and in PG seats by 107 per cent i.e. from 31,185 before 2014 to 64,559 so far.