New Delhi: The Supreme Court in the
latest directive has given full leverage to the Medical Council of India to
conduct a surprise inspection of colleges to check on Council’s norm compliance
by medical colleges. The court also allowed the apex regulator’s surprise
checks after dismissing a Haldia Based college’s allegation of mala fide intent
against the MCI.
It was after one such surprise checks that the Council advised the centre to
disallow admissions to the I care Institute of Medical Sciences and Research
& Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy Hospital, Haldia as they failed to keep the
teacher-student ratio compliance. However, during the arguments the counsel for
the college was extremely critical of such kind of inspection on the grounds
that it does not follow any procedure and reveals the pre-determined mind of
the assessors and, in any case, the object of the MCI, as is evident, was to
prove its point and not to objectively perceive things so that the medical
education in this country can achieve real stability.
The court however, observed that after the
institutions declared compliance that the Council moved in for a surprise
compliance check to see if what was being declared was fact as well.
"In the instant case, we have already held that surprise inspection in law is permissible and the said inspection is not tainted with mala fide, as alleged. Once we arrive at such irresistible conclusion, the order passed by the Central Government with the assistance of the Hearing Committee cannot be flawed"
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