Andhra Pradesh - Anantapur   

GMC sanctioned key posts

ANANTAPUR: The issue of semi-autonomous status to the Government Medical College here appears to have come to the fore once again after four months as the State government is said to have issued a fresh GO on Friday sanctioning the posts of director and registrar to the medical college. The posts are necessary for the college only in case it is provided autonomous status.

Official sources stated that publication of a notification in newspapers for filling the two posts is likely to be followed within a few days. The two key posts in the autonomous administration were sanctioned as per the GO 359 issued in November last year. An ordinance issued in October last year preceded the GO.

An agitation taken up by doctors and staff of the GMC and the general hospital attached to it along with a few people’s organisation was suspended four months ago after an assurance was given that GMC was being taken out of the list of colleges proposed for the autonomous status. In all, three new medical colleges to be set up during the 2008-09 academic year -- medical colleges of Anantapur and Kadapa and two dental colleges -- were proposed to be given semi-autonomous status as per the GO 359.

The GO prescribed appointment of all staff, including teaching staff, required for the medical college and teaching hospital on contract basis, mobilisation of funds from philanthropists for development infrastructure. It also prescribed taking decision on the admission and exam fee independently. The proposal was conceptualised after the GMC was found experiencing shortage of staff continuously.

Teachers transferred to the college from other colleges in the State had never shown any interest in working here. As a result, the medical college continue to run on skeletal teaching staff.

Of the 23 departments in the medical college, 18 have been functioning without a professor each for a long time now.

Besides, the vacancies of associate and assistant professors and tutors continue haunt the medical college even in the eighth year of its inception.

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