NEW DELHI: The Medical Council of India (MCI), the apex regulatory body for medical education, has refused to intervene in the issue of private medical colleges in Karnataka not paying MBBS students a stipend during their one-year internship, saying this was beyond its purview. The MCI was looking into a complaint from Karnataka about non-payment of internship allowance.
This could mean crores of rupees being saved by private colleges. A single private college in Karnataka with 150 seats would save Rs 3.6 crore every year given the fact that the state government mandates Rs 20,000 every month as the stipend.
The minutes of the MCI executive committee (EC) held on September 26 this year show that the EC did not approve the Academic Committee's recommendation on the issue and stated that "Graduate Medical Education (GME) Regulations 1997 do not provide for payment of stipend to the interns".
The MCI's Post Graduate Medical Education Regulation 2000 has a clause stipulating that post-graduate students will be paid the same stipend as in state government owned medical institutions
This could mean crores of rupees being saved by private colleges. A single private college in Karnataka with 150 seats would save Rs 3.6 crore every year given the fact that the state government mandates Rs 20,000 every month as the stipend.
The minutes of the MCI executive committee (EC) held on September 26 this year show that the EC did not approve the Academic Committee's recommendation on the issue and stated that "Graduate Medical Education (GME) Regulations 1997 do not provide for payment of stipend to the interns".
The MCI's Post Graduate Medical Education Regulation 2000 has a clause stipulating that post-graduate students will be paid the same stipend as in state government owned medical institutions
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