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Supreme Court backs MCI norms for medical colleges
News
- Supreme Court in her recent judgment deny re-inspection of medical college which lacks basic standard
Important Facts
- MCI with the support of Centre has appealed to Supreme Court against the Bombay high court judgment.
- Bombay High court ordered MCI for re-inspection of Medical college based on regulation 8(3)(1)(a) of the establishment of Medical Colleges Regulations of 1999.
- Regulation 8 (3) (1) provides that a medical college, which failed the Medical Council of India (MCI) inspection, should be given an opportunity to redeem itself and seek a re-inspection.
- SC in its ruling says that any college seeks for re-inspection, it should satisfy certain minimum standards such as
- The college doesn’t have more than 30% deficiency in faculty
- Residents and the bed occupancy should not be less than 50%.
- In a separate judgment, apex court seeks the response of MCI and CBSE that challenge the MCI norm for upper age limit for NEET for MBBS and BDS courses.
- At present, upper age limit is of 25 years and 30 years for general and reserved categories respectively.
