HASSAN: Minister for Medical Education V.S. Acharya said here on Saturday that the three Government Medical Colleges in Shimoga, Raichur and Bidar would start from this academic year and 90 per cent of the staff recruited.

Teachers' salaries

On the increase of salary of teachers in government medical colleges, including autonomous bodies, the Minister told presspersons that he had discussed the matter with the Deputy Chief Minister, who held the Finance portfolio and that they would get handsome salary and the same would be placed before Cabinet meeting on May 14. The Minister said from this year, 50 seats in postgraduate courses were increased so that there would be no dearth of teaching faculty in government medical colleges.

Trauma care and cobalt centres were opened at Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS), Bellary, and Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Hubli. | Fifty-three teaching staff working in government medical colleges in Bangalore and Mysore were given promotion a week ago and the two colleges were given autonomy, he said. A dental college would be started at VIMS from this academic year and the Government had released Rs. 8 crore for it.

The Government was considering admitting non-resident Indian students in government medical colleges where first batch students had completed MBBS. The NRI students should have centralised air-conditioned hostel and such other facilities. About 15 to 20 per cent of the seats would be reserved for NRIs.

Dr. Acharya said KIMS was started 50 years ago and then engineer A.S. Adke built the campus on 100 acres of land. He said Rs. 102 crore would be released on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the college.

Kanchi seer's plea

The Minister said Kanchi Sankaracharya had submitted an application to start a medical college at Chamarajanagar.

He said the Government had given pre-essentiality certificate.

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