MCI nod for two medical
colleges
The
Medical Council of India has granted the permission to start two new
medical colleges at Surat and Surendranagar in the state from the current
academic session. This was decided at the executive council of the MCI
at New Delhi on Monday. The council was presided over by MCI president
Dr Ketan Desai, the only Gujarati who has ever presided over MCI, the
apex body governing the medical studies in India.
Both Surat Medical College
and C.U. Shah Medical College at Surendranagar are private colleges.
However, the Surat Medical College will start after the Surat Municipal
Corporation accords its approval.
MCI teams had checked the
norms at the Surendranagar College on July 11 and at Surat on July 4
and July 5. As per the MCI rules, the colleges have been granted the
permission to start their first year for the current academic year.
MCI will conduct another inspection next year for starting the second
year at these colleges.
Moreover, the MCI also
gave their permission to increase 40 additional seats both at BJ Medical
College in Ahmedabad and at Vadodara Medical College.
Each college has to show
that it has the infrastructure required for the additional intake of
students and the facilities needed for higher studies.
The notification in the
official gazette and the confirmation letter of the MCI usually takes
about a week or so. The Centralised Admission Committee will declare
the merit list for the medical studies after the completion of these
formalities. The council has taken the decision to grant permission
to these colleges after considering the reports by the inspection teams
which had gone to all these colleges to inspect and report on the infrastructure,
the staff and the ancillary facilities needed for medical studies.
The MCI had carried out
a second inspection at the BJ Medical College and the Vadodara Medical
College on July 17 and July 18 for verification of the additional data
required by the MCI during its first inspection. The first inspection
was carried out between May 18 and May 20.
This would put to end to
the fear that the BJ Medical College would be able to give admission
to only 210 students this year, instead of 250 students.
As the decision has come
before the admissions have taken place, the BJ Medical College will
be able to admit 250 students.
Earlier, the NHL Medical
College had been given the permission to increase 50 additional seats
in their college. The inspection of the Bhavnagar Medical College has
not been carried out by the MCI team and so that decision is pending.
