New Delhi: The government on Thursday approved the reconstitution of Medical Council of India (MCI) with former Director General Health Services RK Srivastava replacing KK Talwar as Chairman of the Council's Board of Governors.
"The formal notification in respect of the MCI reconstitution would be issued tomorrow by the Health Ministry," a top Ministry official told PTI. The new seven-member board to run the apex medical regulator, approved by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, will have a term of six months within which MCI elections is to be held and the original democratic structure of the Council restored.
The government has already moved a new bill in this regard which is yet to be passed in Parliament. An ordinance was on Thursday issued by the government for putting in place the new MCI Board of Governors (BoG) to run the medical regulator. The Union Cabinet had approved the issuance of such an ordinance.
The term of the last BoG expired on May 13, necessitating issuance of an ordinance to form a new board until Parliament passes the new Indian Medical Council Amendment Act, which provides for the restoration of elected MCI and fixes the tenure of its President to root out corruption....
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11:24 PM, May 23, 2013
Bhopal: A private medical college is under scrutiny for selling seats. The Health Ministry and Medical Council of India have cracked down on the People's Medical College in Madhya Pradesh. The college had illegally admitted over 240 students between 2009 and 2012, openly flouting MCI norms. What's more is that in 2012, it had refused to admit students under merit quota, after which the state government had moved court. The...
01:18 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed medical colleges to declare all pending Post Graduate results, which were stayed by the December 13, 2012, order. However, this is only an interim arrangement for this year and a final judgement will be delivered by the Supreme Court in the first week of July. The Supreme Court has also left the option of following the NEET result on the colleges. This means...
02:45 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: After exposing the rot in medical education, CNN-IBN now turns its focus to the plight of medical students who are caught in the stand-off between private colleges and the government. With the Supreme Court decision on the single entrance exam National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) still pending, admissions are yet to happen, leaving the future of 90,000 students hanging. The suspense is leading to anger and frustration...
10:51 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: CNN-IBN on Friday submitted a CD containing the sting operation on how medical colleges in three states are selling post-graduate seats for crores of rupees to the Medical Council of India (MCI). India's top doctors have demanded the government steps in and acts immediately to check the shocking contempt of law displayed by administrators of some private medical and dental colleges. Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad had taken...
04:54 PM, Apr 05, 2013
A CNN-IBN sting operation exposed how medical seats are being sold in black to the highest bidder by private medical colleges in three states. ...
11:57 PM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday said he would ask the Medical Council of India (MCI) to act against PG medical colleges, which have been accepting money to book seats for students even before the medical entrance exam results were declared. His statement came a day after a CNN-IBN sting operation exposed how PG medical college seats were on sale with some being sold for as...
02:31 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Students of the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College in Sion, Mumbai say that the sale of seats has been a longstanding scam. ...
10:08 AM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: India's top doctors have demanded that the government steps in and acts immediately to check the shocking contempt of law displayed by administrators of private medical and dental colleges. This came after a CNN-IBN sting operation exposed how PG medical college seats are on sale with some being sold for as much as Rs 3 crore, even before the results for the All India Common Entrance Test are...
08:06 AM, Apr 04, 2013
In clear violation of the Supreme Court of India's orders and audacious contempt of law, five reputed colleges have been caught in the middle of the rot in the country's medical education system. A CNN-IBN sting operation covering three states has exposed how private medical and dental colleges are illegally selling post graduate seats to the highest bidders. ...
12:02 AM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: In clear violation of the Supreme Court of India's orders and audacious contempt of law, five reputed colleges have been caught in the middle of the rot in the country's medical education system. A CNN-IBN sting operation covering three states has exposed how private medical and dental colleges are illegally selling post graduate seats to the highest bidders. Results for the All India Common Entrance test are still...
09:15 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Even as the Supreme Court's verdict on National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for medical and dental courses is awaited, private colleges have started conducting their own entrance exams. Caught in the middle of the Centre versus state tussle are thousands of students who have no idea what the future holds for them. ...
07:53 AM, Feb 07, 2013
Announcing a slew of measures in the health sector, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on January 19 sanctioned over Rs 25 crore for various works including upgradation of the Government Dental College and Hospital here. ...
02:09 PM, Jan 19, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the Andhra Pradesh government and the NTR Health University to respond to a plea, which has alleged that several meritorious candidates have been denied admissions on the management quota seats in various private colleges of the state. Issuing notices last Friday, also to the private colleges, on petitions filed by a group of students, a bench of justices HL Dattu and CK Prasad...
05:25 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Cardiologist Dr Devi Shetty says that lack of good government colleges in the country is the root cause of all corruption in the medical field. ...
12:04 PM, Jul 18, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocking revelation, it has been found that several sub-standard medical colleges in the country have been getting permissions from the Medical Council of India. In these colleges, daily wage labourers act as patients and local doctors play professors to get clearances. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against six such medical colleges, saying they were given permission despite flouting norms. And if...
06:26 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Jagjit Walia turned Citizen Journalist to expose how seats in medical colleges are being sold openly in the capital. ...
08:55 PM, Sep 17, 2011
New Delhi: One and a half years after the don of the Medical Council of India, Ketan Desai was arrested for taking a bribe of Rs 2 crore, the Central Bureau of Investigation is finally ready with a chargesheet. CNN-IBN has accessed the confidential papers that document how the deal was struck, rules bent, quality of medical education compromised and how money changed hands. The CBI decoded the modus operandi...
08:25 PM, Sep 14, 2011
Bangalore: One lakh rupees for every mark added - that's the going rate in the fake marks scam in Karnataka. If you are an MBBS student, you could pass the university exam by just shelling out money. Evaluating officers will change the marks when they get the copies for retotalling. Students have paid a lakh for every percentage that is needed for them to clear the exam. MBBS students from...
08:02 PM, Jun 14, 2011
Not merit, but money can get you a seat in some private medical colleges. ...
12:28 AM, Oct 15, 2009
