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High Court notice to Centre, AIIMS

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Petition seeks dissolution of the governing body

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and the Union Government on a petition seeking dissolution of the governing body of the Institute headed by Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss.

A group of doctors of the Institute, through the petition, urged the court to dissolve the governing body. They alleged that it had been illegally constituted, as the AIIMS Act debarred the Health Minister and the Union Health Secretary from being nominated to it.

Justice Anil Kumar directed the respondents to file their replies within four weeks and posted to August 24 further hearing of the petition.

The petitioners urged the court to issue directions for constituting a new governing body, excluding the Health Minister and the Health Secretary.

In 1996, a Rajya Sabha Committee recommended discontinuation of the practice of nominating the Health Minister and the Health Secretary to the Institute's governing body, saying that it would affect its autonomy and convert it into a government department, the petition said, adding that instead of implementing the recommendation, the Government was sitting over them. The petition urged the court to issue directions to the Government to constitute a committee of eminent persons to manage the Institute.

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