Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 4
There will be no separate entrance exam for MBBS admissions to AIIMS, JIPMER Puducherry and other institutes of national importance from the academic session 2020 and all admissions starting next year will happen through the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-UG system.
The government today said the proposal of having a single entrance examination and common counselling for admission to all medical institutions at UG level, including institutes of national importance, will be implemented from 2020. This proposal has been envisaged in the National Medical Commission Act.
“Efforts are underway to constitute the National Medical Commission under the NMC Act at the earliest so that some major reforms can be implemented from academic year 2020-21. A common NEET (UG) examination for entry into all medical colleges and also AIIMS, JIPMER, etc, will be implemented from 2020,” Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said today.
The government also said it would try and regulate tuition fee in 50 per cent of all seats in private and deemed medical colleges from the next academic session. “The MCI Board of Governors is already working on this fee regulation rules,” the Ministry said.
The exercise to set up the NMC has already been started and the Ministry has received 72 applications for the post of NMC Chairman, and chairpersons and members of the four autonomous boards that will be part of the NMC. These boards are—Under-Graduate Medical Education Board, Post-Graduate Medical Education Board, Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) and Ethics and Medical Registration Board.
The selection to the said posts will be made on the recommendations of a soon to be set up search committee headed by Cabinet Secretary. The Minister said the process is on to constitute the Medical Advisory Council to the NMC. At present, 23 nominations of Vice Chancellors and 22 nominations from state medical councils have been received to be part of the council. Once the MAC is notified, nine members from state medical councils and 10 from state/UT representatives will be selected as members of National Medical Commission,” Vardhan said.
NMC Act features
- No requirement of annual renewal of medical colleges
- Fee regulation in 50% seats in private medical colleges and deemed universities
- Penal provisions ranging from warning to withdrawal of recognition for non–compliant colleges
- Cadre of Community Health Providers for primary and preventive healthcare
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