Doctors contend that current system limits growth opportunities & drive fellow colleagues to private sector. They have set 15 August deadline to implement the policy.
The decision was made in light of an acute shortage of trained technical staff in various health institutions that has been impacting delivery of healthcare services for a long time.
Norms unveiled 5 July are a major step towards unlocking existing human resource potential within govt health systems & optimising medical education infra, says Commission.
In Februray 2024, junior doctors staged protests and boycotted classes after the government proposed to increase admissions to medical schools to meet shortfall in healthcare.
The document published Friday noted Indian students were seeking cheaper options in foreign countries where education and clinical training were subpar.
This noble profession has lost its sheen and appeal as a career path of choice for India’s brightest students. We need to analyse and understand the reasons for this decline
Many private medical colleges, run by politicians, would invariably wish for the NEET exam to be abolished and for a return to the old system where they could earn huge amounts of money.
In Independence Day speech, PM said these new seats will be created over next 5 yrs. India has 731 medical colleges offering 1.12 lakh MBBS & 72,627 PG or PG- equivalent seats.
Seats have been permitted based on MSR-UG 2020 and not MSR-UG 2023 that nearly doubled hospital beds, faculty & patients required to set up new colleges or increase seats in existing ones.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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