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Wednesday, Mar 23, 2005

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

State may sound out panel

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, MARCH 22. The State Government will consider asking the Panduranga Rao Committee to issue essentiality certificates to nursing schools and colleges like in the case of medical and dental colleges.

Rejecting the demand for a judicial inquiry into the permission granted by the Congress Government for 62 nursing schools and 51 colleges in the last ten months, Finance Minister, K. Rosaiah, told the Assembly on Tuesday that the permission was not "final'' for the institutions to function. The Indian Nursing Council and NTR University of Health Sciences were the final sanctioning authorities.

In between, the Government could involve the Panduranga Rao committee for issue of essentiality certificates in addition to the independent report of the Director of Medical Education (DME).

Responding to an allegation by N. Janardhan Reddy (TDP) that the Government accepted bribe and permitted the nursing schools and colleges in violation of rules, Mr. Rosaiah asked if the same was true of 223 engineering colleges apart from several pharmacy colleges and polytechnics sanctioned by the TDP Government.

No infrastructure

Mr. Reddy said the sanctioned schools and colleges did not have clinical attachment or infrastructure. Citing an example, he said there was no 200-bed hospital as required at Markapuram where a nursing college was sanctioned.

Quoting the guidelines of the Indian Nursing Council, Akbaruddin Owaisi (MIM) said 15 M.Sc. (Nursing) teachers were required for an intake of 50 students in a school.

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