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| 23rd
Aug 2010 / Times of India / Ahmedabad Edition |
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Guj to get 5 more medical colleges
Number of medical seats to rise by 750
Ahmedabad: The state will see five more medical colleges coming up in next year, two of which will be in Ahmedabad.
Sources in the government told TOI that medical colleges have been proposed at Sola and Gujarat Cancer Research Society (GCRS) premises in the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, Valsad, Patan, and in Gotri area in Vadodara, besides a private medical college in Nadiad.
The first five colleges will be self-financed and under the jurisdiction of Gujarat Medical Education Research Society (GMERS).
This will mark an increase of at least 750 medical seats as each college has proposed a strength of 150 students.
State health secretary Rajesh Kishore said, Valsad, Patan, Sola and Gotri will be started by next year, the procedure for which has already begun. The staff will be recruited as per MCI guidelines. These are long-term projects and we are making efforts to get more medical seats in the state.
The proposed GCRS medical college will the second college in the Civil Hospital campus after BJ Medical College. Apart from this, Dharamsinh Desai Institute of Technology (DDIT) in Nadiad will also open a new medical college, for which Nadiad Education Society has given 25 acres of land.
Last year two new medical colleges were opened in Gujarat, KJ Mehta Medical college near Bhavnagar and Adani Medical College near Bhuj because of which 300 seats rose in the state, but the Bhavnagar college was derecognised this year by MCI.
The MCI itself is embroiled in controversy with its chief Ketan Desai was caught in a corruption case by the CBI.
Currently, barring KJ Mehta college, there are 1,755 seats for medicine, including six in government colleges.
GU defies UGC norms in lecturers appointment
Ahmedabad: Defying norms fixed by University Grant Commission (UGC), Gujarat University has done away with national eligibility test (NET) and state eligibility test (SET) as the compulsory eligibility criteria for candidates for post of lecturers in MEd colleges. In an advertisement for open interview scheduled on August 22, the varsity has fixed minimum of 55 per cent marks as eligibility criteria for candidates, apart from no compulsion of NET or SET.
Sources in the state education deSources in the state education department attributed this development to the scarcity of teachers in government colleges. Faced with staff crunch, the government decided to do away with the UGCs stringent criteria for lecturers appointment and carry out candidates selection in arbitrary manner, said a senior official from the state education department.
The government had fixed MPhil as criteria while doing away with NET and SET. Ironically, the UGC had removed MPhil from the criteria. TNN
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