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MCI team visits AGMC to inspect infrastructure of PG course, Tripura Govt. on a spree to hold affiliation
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MCI team visits AGMC to inspect infrastructure of PG course, Tripura Govt. on a spree to hold   affiliation
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AGARTALA, July 16 (TIWN): A team of Medical Council of India (MCI) on Thursday visited Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) to take a stock of the situation of infrastructures of Post-Graduate (PG) course, said official source. Despite MCI had issued a notice to the state government in recent past to improve the infrastructures of General Surgery and Paediatric PG Courses and several others hit by the council, the state government compromising the quality education at AGM is found on a spree saving faces behind the musk. The council has this time sent an expert team to AGMC to take a stock of the situation of the psychiatric PG course. But the college authority this time had managed to bring faculties from Kolkata to make the infrastructure ready before the team arrived here. Surprising, but the real entity is that the Govt. run medical college managed to keep a Kolkata based faculties for its PG courses who do come here in college to withdraw their salary and the so called ‘quality education’ remained untouched. The council issuing a notice had asked the AGMC authority to submit a report of upgraded infrastructure within 6 weeks and then to call the MCI team for a visit here after submitting the fees of Rs. 2 lakhs. The council had also noticed, if the infrastructure of General Surgery and Paediatric PG Courses are not improved then the duo courses would be cancelled.

The overall haphazard situation of AGMC has left skepticism about the security of the medical college’s MBBS students’ future as the MCI officials have been keeping stern eyes on AGMC.

The AGMC is currently left with permission to run just half of the courses it initially had because Tripura’s main medical college has lost half of its post-graduate courses after the Medical Council of India de-recognised six of them.

The meeting recommended against granting further recognition to post-graduate courses in Pediatrics Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Psychiatry. General Surgery had already been de-recognised in August 2014.   

Besides, it is to be mentioned here that a serious criticism erupted recently among the abroad college authorities and the MCI officials regarding improper infrastructure of Tripura AGMC as most of the pass out students from the college had failed to get job in abroad hospitals.

Therefore the reputation of the AGMC has now become a matter of concern for the Medical Council of India with uncertainty prevails over the affiliation to the AGMC.    

 

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