ANANTAPUR: The scarcity of teachers resulting from the reversion of 17 professors and associate professors of the Government Medical College here is likely to eclipse the process of admissions to the first year again this year

. It has become a practice with the college to face the objections of Medical Council of India (MCI) over admissions due to shortage of teachers every year since its inception in 2000-01.

Even before the Directorate of Medical Education issued the orders of reversion to 17 teachers, the

college has been facing shortage of teachers in all categories. Against the sanctioned strength of 20

professors, 28 associate professors and 116 tutors or assistant professors, the college had only 15

professors, 14 associate profession and 56 tutors, prior to the reversion impact.

The reversion orders have left the college to work with only one professor (forensic medicine) and 11 associate professors. One more professor, who did not get the reversion, is however, on long leave already.

MCI stipulations

The irony behind the entire issue of reversions, given to about 470 teachers in all Government medical colleges in the State on Friday, is that all of them were promoted in 2003 and 2004 to meet the MCI stipulations on the teaching staff pattern to allow admissions.

The MCI had cancelled 270 medical seats in the State in 2003 following severe shortage of teachers in the colleges at Anantapur, Kurnool, Tirupati, Warangal and Kakinada.

The cancelled seats were restored only after the doctors, working in different hospitals not attached to the medical colleges, in the State were promoted and posted in medical colleges.

The immediate reason behind the reversions, however, is learnt to be the orders of the Administrative Tribunal to the State Government to review the promotions given to medical teachers in 2003 and 2004.

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