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PG Medical Courses Recognition |
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Written by Dr Mohammad Sajjad
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Long back I had raised the issue of recognition of the PG Medical courses in Biochemistry and Forensic Medicine, by the Medical Council of India (MCI).
Responding quickly to it, the honourable Vice Chancellor had assured us on the group mail that he will do the needful. But the reports say that there are some faults on the part of the AMU administration:
(a) The AMU deposited the required amount (Rs one lakh) directly to the MCI rather than to the Union Ministry of Health (which is the rule),
(b) As per the MCI rules (1998) not more than 50% of the faculty should have their degrees from non Medical (MBBS and MD) routes, which stands violated in the JNMCH.
(c) Certain infrastructure requirements like quality control, auto analyzer etc are also deficient probably.
In nutshell, these three deficiencies are the main obstacles in the way. I think the first error (of depositing the amount at ' wrong place' ) can probably be rectified too easily and the career of the students and reputation of the JNMCH must not be put at stake.
Secondly, it also testifies how recklessly do AMU officials ignore/violate rules. An appropriate action must also be initiated in this regard in order to fix the guilt, if at all such news is correct.
Thirdly, why do we tend to believe that the AMU would have violated such rules? Because we have many other instances:
(a) recently 200 officials were promoted through Assured Career Promotion (ACP) and this has reportedly been turned down by the UGC on the plea that the process does not confirm the rules (I may kindly be corrected).
(b) About Rs 8-9 crores were spent on the fencing (boundary walls) of AMU, and this also reportedly ran into some troubles again on the grounds of not following certain rules (I once again beg to be corrected if I am wrong).
(c) The Justice Mathew Report (and suppressing this report for 9 long years and continuing "inaction" on it ) are the greatest testimony of the long history of gross violation of rules in AMU.
In this situation one professor (elected member of the Academic Council) can hardly cover up the faults. In fact such outrageously immoral exercises will eat into his own credentials/reputation.
May One hope that the needful will be done to save the career of the students of JNMCH, only then we should be glad on the Rs 130 crore for the upgradation of the JNMCH.
One probably needs an extra dose of optimism for this?
Regards,
Dr Mohammad Sajjad
Lecturer
Centre of Advanced Study in History
Aligarh Muslim University (India)
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