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| State Govt fails to pursue case before MCI | | J&K unlikely to get any benefit from MCI’ s decision to increase seats for PG courses from this session | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, APR 7: With State government’s failure to pursue its case before the Union Health Ministry and Medical Council of India (MCI) regarding increase in seats for PG courses in medical colleges of the state, the chances for increasing seats for PG courses during this academic session are remote.
Though as per reports the MCI is likely to increase 6000 seats for PG courses in the medical colleges all over the India this year the case of J&K state seems to be uncertain due to the failure of the State government to plead its case before the Union Health Ministry and MCI.
The MCI has decided to increase the seats by six thousand for PG courses taking its tally from 18000 to 24000 this year. Likewise it has decided to take the tally of MBBS seats from 34,000 to 50,000 all over country this year. This was recently stated by some senior functionaries of MCi in union Capital. However, the medical colleges of J&K are unlikely to be benefitted by this decisiona the State government is sleeping over the issue. According to sources
Delaying tactics adopted by the State Government in this regard have generated a lot of resentment among the people in general and the student community especially the aspirants . The sources said the decision will benefit the students in other parts of the country s the admissions for PG courses will start there in the first week of next month. But the students of J&K are unlikely to be benefitted by the decision as the admission process for the PG courses in various Medical College of the state will start from April 14 and as the time is running short the aspirants for undergoing PG training in medical colleges of the state are not sure that the notification regarding the increasing of the seats for the state will be issued within stipulated time frame.
The aspirants taking serious exception to the State Government’s attitude said that the state is already facing a lot of shortage of specialists and the Government should have taken the issue with Union Health Ministry on priority basis to seek the enhanced quota for the state in PG and MBBS courses which it has failed to do till date.
Sources said that despite the announcement of minister for Medical Education that seats for PG courses will be increased in the state by this session and the notification will be issued by Union government within days nothing had happened till date in this regard.
Even a delegation of aspirants who had visited Union Capital to meet the union Health Minister seeking his intervention in the matter have returned empty hands as Mr Azad was also pr-occupied with other engagements.
The aspirants and their parents have in an appeal to Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Mr Azad, and MCI chairman sought their immediate intervention in the matter and demanded that the state be also given its due quota from this academic session of PG classes.
The aspirants while expressing their displeasure over the delay said that already the Sher –e-Kashmir Institute of ,Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura had submitted its proposal for enhancement of 50 PG seats in various medical streams of the Institute and the file is lying with Union Health Ministry for a long time for disposal. The Institute is already facing a shortage of faculty as the 20 year long turmoil affected its academics to a great extent and the doctors with specialisation did not prefer to serve the institute, sources added.
However after the situation has considerably improved in the valley and doctors showing keen interest to serve the hospital and it was now upto the Government to increase the intake capacity of the hospital so that every department of SKIMS becomes is put back on rails and its past glory as a prestigious medical institute is restored.
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