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Retirement age for medical faculty raised

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Retirement age raised from 58 to 60 years
If vacancies are not filled, colleges will lose MCI recognition

HYDERABAD: The retirement age for the teaching faculty working in Government medical colleges under the purview of the Director, Medical Education, has been raised from 58 to 60 years.

This decision was taken in order to overcome the acute shortage of teaching faculty, especially qualified specialists, in Government medical colleges. If the vacancies are not filled, many medical colleges stand the threat of losing recognition by the Medical Council of India (MCI).

Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who presided over a meeting held here on Tuesday to review the functioning of medical colleges, said there was no way the vacancies caused by retirement could be filled under the present circumstances, except by continuing the service of the present incumbents.

Medical Education Minister G. Aruna Kumari told reporters after the meeting that 90 of the 194 posts of teachers in medical colleges would be filled by the latest decision. The remaining would be filled by promotions for which MCI’s norms would be followed.

Referring to the MCI withdrawing its recognition to Guntur Medical College following recent inspection of the facilities, the Minister said the Council would be requested to make another inspection after improvement of facilities.

However, counselling would be held for all the 150 seats in the college and they would be kept in the “reserve pool” for being allotted to the EAMCET candidates at a later stage.

Re-appointment

Mrs. Aruna Kumari said the Government had taken various steps to meet the faculty shortage like recruitment at assistant professor level, reservation of more post-graduate (specialities) seats for in-service doctors, and re-appointment of retired professors.

Recent inspections of the medical colleges by the MCI showed that filling of vacant posts of specialists in S. V. Medical College, Tirupati, Government College, Anantapur, and Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Kadapa, had become difficult. The job of making appointments for the upcoming medical colleges at Adilabad, Srikakulam and Ongole would also be tough.

In spite of these problems, the Government had decided to start classes in the new medical colleges planned at Adilabad, Ongole, and Srikakulam at the earliest. The Chief Minister would lay the foundation-stone for the construction of the medical college at Ongole on July 1.

The meeting decided to fix remuneration for the faculty appointed on a three-year contract for the dental colleges at Kadapa and Vijayawada.

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