The Union Cabinet on Thursday extended by a year the term of the existing Board of Governors of the Medical Council of India. The amendment awaits approval from Parliament.
The term of the six-member Board of Governors, headed by S.K. Sarin, ends on May 14.
The government had issued an ordinance to supersede the MCI with the board after its president, Ketan Desai, was arrested on April 22 last year by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs. 2 crore to recognise a medical college in Punjab though it did not meet MCI standards.
The MCI, a statutory body, tasked to oversee the standards of medical education in India, grants recognition to medical degrees, gives accreditation to medical colleges, registers medical practitioners and monitors medical practice in the country. The government subsequently amended the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, to inserted Article 3 (a) through an ordinance that authorises the government to intervene in matters of “national policy.”
The MCI general body had been superseded only for a year as the government planned to bring in the National Council for Human Resources in Health (NCHRH) Bill before the term ended. NCHRH would have subsumed the MCI and all other regulatory bodies. However, the Bill is yet to be cleared by the Cabinet.
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Rabu, 23 Maret 2011
Health and HRD Ministries agree on medical education jurisdiction
The expert group of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the task force of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) on Tuesday broadly agreed to settle their turf war over the jurisdiction of medical education.
The National Commission for Human Resources in Health (NCHRH) will get to lay down the minimum standards of medical education, while all health-related research will come under the purview of the National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER), promoted by the HRD Ministry.
However, universities will also be free to have more exacting higher standards for which they will deal with the NCHER.
The NCHRH and the NCHER draft Bills — proposed as regulatory bodies — have been pending for the past several months as the two ministries were involved in a tussle over the jurisdiction of medical education.
The Health and Family Welfare Ministry refused to give up medical education for inclusion under the NCHER on the grounds that it was linked to health services, while the NCHER said that since all education was governed by the university system and there were multidisciplinary areas of research, all education should come under one regulator.
The war of words was so intense that the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) had to intervene and ask the ministries to work out a mechanism that would link the two regulatory bodies and complement each other instead of contradicting them.
T.K.A. Nair, Principal Secretary to the PMO, called both sides and asked them to work out some kind of an arrangement. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad also spoke to sort out the matter amicably.
As per the agreement, the NCHER will lay down guidelines for research to bring in uniformity. All research proposals, including that of health, will be guided and prioritised by the Board for Research Promotion and Innovation, under the NCHER, without prejudice to other funding agencies like the Indian Council of Medical Research, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and other institutions.
The Board for Research Promotion and Innovation will also have representatives from other ministries involved in research.
The two Bills will now be amended to accommodate the agreement and then circulated for comments from the other ministries concerned before these are placed in the Cabinet for clearance.
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The National Commission for Human Resources in Health (NCHRH) will get to lay down the minimum standards of medical education, while all health-related research will come under the purview of the National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER), promoted by the HRD Ministry.
However, universities will also be free to have more exacting higher standards for which they will deal with the NCHER.
The NCHRH and the NCHER draft Bills — proposed as regulatory bodies — have been pending for the past several months as the two ministries were involved in a tussle over the jurisdiction of medical education.
The Health and Family Welfare Ministry refused to give up medical education for inclusion under the NCHER on the grounds that it was linked to health services, while the NCHER said that since all education was governed by the university system and there were multidisciplinary areas of research, all education should come under one regulator.
The war of words was so intense that the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) had to intervene and ask the ministries to work out a mechanism that would link the two regulatory bodies and complement each other instead of contradicting them.
T.K.A. Nair, Principal Secretary to the PMO, called both sides and asked them to work out some kind of an arrangement. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad also spoke to sort out the matter amicably.
As per the agreement, the NCHER will lay down guidelines for research to bring in uniformity. All research proposals, including that of health, will be guided and prioritised by the Board for Research Promotion and Innovation, under the NCHER, without prejudice to other funding agencies like the Indian Council of Medical Research, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and other institutions.
The Board for Research Promotion and Innovation will also have representatives from other ministries involved in research.
The two Bills will now be amended to accommodate the agreement and then circulated for comments from the other ministries concerned before these are placed in the Cabinet for clearance.
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Rabu, 09 Februari 2011
Find linkages between NCHER and NCHRH: PMO
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has asked the Ministries of Human Resource Development and Health and Family Welfare to identify linkages between the two proposed regulatory bodies — National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) and the National Commission on Human Resource for Health (NCHRH) — being promoted by them respectively to speed up the process of setting up the two authorities.
Both the Ministries have been given time up to Friday next to resolve issues and work to form common grounds for coexistence. The PMO is keen on the resolution as the Medical Council of India (Amendment) Act, 2010 ends on May 15 and it is important that a mechanism is in place before that.
The Prime Minister is said to have already expressed his ‘agreement' with the NCHER.
The two Ministries have been fighting a turf war for more than a year now with the task force, set up by the HRD Ministry, bringing all higher education, including medical education and legal education under the purview of an overarching regulatory body — the NCHER — while the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been opposing it tooth and nail saying that medical education was closely linked with health infrastructure and should come under the ambit of the NCHRH.
While both the Ministries claim that the draft bills for NCHER and NCHRH are ready to be placed before the Cabinet, neither have been able to do so because of possibility of overlapping and lack of clarity.
With several attempts made earlier to make the two Ministries come to a consensus having failed, the PMO on Friday convened a meeting of the HRD task force members and experts from the Health and Family Welfare Ministry (since the task force that drafted the NCHRH Bill has been disbanded) to thrash out the issues in the presence of T.K.A. Nair, the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister.
After both the sides placed their version, Mr. Nair asked them to find a common ground for the existence of both the Commissions. One possible way could be cross representation, the second could be bringing the medical colleges and research under the purview of the NCHER while the related health infrastructure and services, accreditation, ethics and maintenance of medical registers could remain with the NCHRH. There was also a suggestion that bodies such as the National Board of Examinations that are outside the university system could be central to NCHRH.
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Both the Ministries have been given time up to Friday next to resolve issues and work to form common grounds for coexistence. The PMO is keen on the resolution as the Medical Council of India (Amendment) Act, 2010 ends on May 15 and it is important that a mechanism is in place before that.
The Prime Minister is said to have already expressed his ‘agreement' with the NCHER.
The two Ministries have been fighting a turf war for more than a year now with the task force, set up by the HRD Ministry, bringing all higher education, including medical education and legal education under the purview of an overarching regulatory body — the NCHER — while the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been opposing it tooth and nail saying that medical education was closely linked with health infrastructure and should come under the ambit of the NCHRH.
While both the Ministries claim that the draft bills for NCHER and NCHRH are ready to be placed before the Cabinet, neither have been able to do so because of possibility of overlapping and lack of clarity.
With several attempts made earlier to make the two Ministries come to a consensus having failed, the PMO on Friday convened a meeting of the HRD task force members and experts from the Health and Family Welfare Ministry (since the task force that drafted the NCHRH Bill has been disbanded) to thrash out the issues in the presence of T.K.A. Nair, the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister.
After both the sides placed their version, Mr. Nair asked them to find a common ground for the existence of both the Commissions. One possible way could be cross representation, the second could be bringing the medical colleges and research under the purview of the NCHER while the related health infrastructure and services, accreditation, ethics and maintenance of medical registers could remain with the NCHRH. There was also a suggestion that bodies such as the National Board of Examinations that are outside the university system could be central to NCHRH.
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