Puducherry, Dec 7 (PTI) The Medical Council of India(MCI) has directed three private self-financing medicalcolleges here to discharge 105 students admitted to first yearMBBS course during academic year 2017-2018 in violation ofrules.
A release from the Directorate of Health and FamilyWelfare services of Puducherry government today said the MCIhas directed the three colleges to "immediately discharge thestudents," admitted in violation of Graduate Medical Education(GME) Regulations 1997.
Based on the orders of MCI, the territorial governmenthas directed the three colleges to remove the students fromtheir rolls and submit a compliance report, it said.
While 41 students were admitted to the MBBS course in Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College, the Sri VenkteshwaraMedical College Hospital and Research Centre offered admissionto 38 students whereas the Pondicherry Institute of MedicalSciences gave admission to 26 candidates.
The MCI's direction is "on account of the fact that thelists of these students furnished by the colleges were notavailable in the the ones provided by the CENTAC (CentralisedAdmission Committee) of Puducherry government." CENTAC is the statutory authority for selection of thecandidates for professional courses here.
The territorial government has also informed theRegistrars of Pondicherry University and the Tamil NaduMedical Council of the directives of the MCI for necessaryaction.
It was also stated that the MCI had "erroneouslyrecommended discharge of 56 candidates (55 under governmentquota and one under management quota) in Sri VenkateshwaraMedical College Hospital and Research Centre, who were dulysponsored by the CENTAC." "The Puducherry administration has taken up the matterwith MCI seeking to withdraw the action in respect of these 56candidates," an official of the Health Department told PTI.
"The college has also been advised not to discharge thesecandidates until further orders or communication of the MCI,"he said. PTI CORROH.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.