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IGGMGH: A saga of official cheating
THOUGH the Akola Government Medical College got the High Court's protection against the recommendation of the Medical Council of India (MCH) against its recognition. the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) at Nagpur has been surviving only on similar help for years. This saga of alternate recognition and derecognition of seats at undergraduate or postgraduate levels is a regular experience for (IGGMCH). thanks sometimes to the Government's intervention or sometimes to the intervention by the courts.
Despite this, unfortunately, the Government of Maharashtra is not ready lo mend its irregular ways, and has indulged in making promises for fulfillment of MCI norms and then shamelessly going hack on its own sovereign promise. That is the reason why the institution has seen many an up-and-down since 1997 in terms of the number of recognised seats. The institution has not seen one single day in its long history when it could boast of having fulfilled all the MCI norms that cover mostly be infrastructural needs of medical education. The institution has also not seen on e single year in its long history when ii could stand on its own in terms of teachers.
In fact, this has been the story of most GMCs in Vidarbha as well as in other parts of the State except Mumbai and Pune. It is common knowledge that the Department of Medical Education indulges in official cheating of the MCI during inspections by transfering loads of teachers on a sly and temporary basis only to fend off the searching eyes of the MCI team. Only if the MCI had gone deeper into name-verification of all the teachers at a particular GMC under inspection, it would have exposed a massive deception indulged in by the Government of Maharashtra. But. even a simple look at all the lists of teachers at all GMCs would reveal the fraud being played in the name of medical education. For. such an inspection of records would tell how many limes the same names of teachers have found place in the lists of several GMCs at a time.
The story of Nagpur's IGGMCH. however, is most disgusting. When the MCI slatted pressing harder for fulfillment of all infra structural norms, the Government of Maharashtra decided to go in for vertical expansion of the institution in its traditional location. This project worth about Rs. 300 crore was approved by the Maharashtra Cabinet and an agency -Maytas - was appointed to complete the project in stipulated lime.
Even as the region started barbouring hopes of a really spruced up IGGMCH in a brand new premises, the Government kept the project in permanent abeyance, thanks perhaps to the clash of 'interests" of several bigwigs in the Department of Medical Education, including the then Minister of Medical Education Mr. Dilip Walse-Patil.As this political game went on. the entity that suffered was the lamed Indira Gandhi government Medical College and Hospital at Nagpur and none else.
Naturally, many norms still remain unfulfilled, including, class rooms with appropriate facilities, hostels for boys and girls, out patients department, pharmacies, nurses" quarters, doctors' apartments, parking spaces, and inter-building movements of doctors and patients.
Thanks to the political freezing of the Rs. 300 crore project of vertical expansion of the IGGMCH. the MCI still continued to breathe down the neck of the institution that has saved its reputation only on the the Stoic Government's sovereign promises which its leaders never intended to keep. And the result is for everyone to see: Where as the region could have satisfied itself with at least 250 properly approved seals at UG level and at least a 100 scats at the PG level, it has now to make do with much fewer seats almost in the form of crumbs from the MCI who condescends to gram only a temporary approval to only some seats on a periodic basis.Yd. there arc no Mgas of seriousness on the pan of the Maharashtra Government as regards of fulfillment of MCI norms. This lack of honesty is visible through absence of appropriate budgetary allocations for the purpose, and also through the absence of a planned approach towards completion of all conditionalities of the MCI. What is visible, instead, is a piecemeal approach whenever the MCI gets angry and withdraws its approval on certain counts. Then follows a spate of promises, and that is succeeded by a similar wake of unkept words, no matter then if medical education in the region suffers.
Naturally, many norms still remain unfulfilled, including, class rooms with appropriate facilities, hostels for boys and girls, out patients department, pharmacies, nurses" quarters, doctors' apartments, parking spaces, and inter-building movements of doctors and patients.
Thanks to the political freezing of the Rs. 300 crore project of vertical expansion of the IGGMCH. the MCI still continued to breathe down the neck of the institution that has saved its reputation only on the the Stoic Government's sovereign promises which its leaders never intended to keep. And the result is for everyone to see: Where as the region could have satisfied itself with at least 250 properly approved seals at UG level and at least a 100 scats at the PG level, it has now to make do with much fewer seats almost in the form of crumbs from the MCI who condescends to gram only a temporary approval to only some seats on a periodic basis.Yd. there arc no Mgas of seriousness on the pan of the Maharashtra Government as regards of fulfillment of MCI norms. This lack of honesty is visible through absence of appropriate budgetary allocations for the purpose, and also through the absence of a planned approach towards completion of all conditionalities of the MCI. What is visible, instead, is a piecemeal approach whenever the MCI gets angry and withdraws its approval on certain counts. Then follows a spate of promises, and that is succeeded by a similar wake of unkept words, no matter then if medical education in the region suffers.
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