KIMS challenges government order on admission of MBBS course academic year 2018-19

Koppal: The state-run Koppal Institute of Medical Sciences, Koppal (KIMS), has filed a petition in the Karnataka High Court against the order of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare denying it permission to admit students to its first year MBBS course for the academic year 2018-19.

The institute claimed in its petition that the Ministry and the Medical Council of India (MCI), which had found certain deficiencies, such as shortage of teaching staff and residents during their inspection, had failed to consider the compliance reports on rectifying the deficiencies that it had submitted to them in May this year.

Also the public notice denying it permission to admit students for the year 2018-19 was issued without giving it an opportunity to be heard as required under the Medical Council of India Act, it protested.

Referring to the MCI's observation in its second inspection report of April that it had a 35 per cent shortage of faculty , the institute claimed that some of its permanent teaching staff were absent at 11 a.m. on the day of the MCI inspection. It also regretted that the MCI had not considered the documents it had produced to show that they were on its rolls.

Meanwhile, the Ministry on Friday submitted a copy of the order dated May 31 denying the institute permission to admit first year students to the court. A Division Bench comprising Justice H.G. Ramesh and Justice Mohammad Nawaz, which is hearing the petition, adjourned the case for further hearing to June 25.