12-20-2006, 07:19 AM
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[ 20 Dec, 2006 0148hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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NEW DELHI: The controversial attempt by health minister A Ramadoss to become the superboss of the medical education fraternity has attracted a stinging indictment from a parliamentary standing committee on health.
The committee has slammed the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill as a ploy to end the autonomy of the central body.
The committee, whose recommendations on the controversial Bill were tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, has called the legislation as "an exercise in haste" for which none of the stake-holders â state governments or MCI or state medical councils or IMA and its state branches, or medical education experts â were consulted.
While government could still choose to ignore the recommendations, the Bill would invite sharp political mobilisation too as committee's chairman and SP MP Amar Singh warned of consequences if government went ahead with "dismantling the time-tested structure". On the argument that the Bill was necessitated by corruption charges against MCI, Singh said:"You can seek accountability with autonomy but you cannot end autonomy." He said except health ministry, no other entity was in favour of the changes.
The committee lamented that Centre and MCI, which should complement each other, are actually at each other's throat. That its report was not to be ignored was hammered home by Singh as he told reporters that the recommendations represented the views across the political spectrum â stressing on the name of defence minister A K Antony.
The report has made a stinging indictment of the Bill's provision that MCI would stand dissolved with its adoption and would be replaced by five members to be nominated by Central government.
[ 20 Dec, 2006 0148hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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NEW DELHI: The controversial attempt by health minister A Ramadoss to become the superboss of the medical education fraternity has attracted a stinging indictment from a parliamentary standing committee on health.
The committee has slammed the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill as a ploy to end the autonomy of the central body.
The committee, whose recommendations on the controversial Bill were tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, has called the legislation as "an exercise in haste" for which none of the stake-holders â state governments or MCI or state medical councils or IMA and its state branches, or medical education experts â were consulted.
While government could still choose to ignore the recommendations, the Bill would invite sharp political mobilisation too as committee's chairman and SP MP Amar Singh warned of consequences if government went ahead with "dismantling the time-tested structure". On the argument that the Bill was necessitated by corruption charges against MCI, Singh said:"You can seek accountability with autonomy but you cannot end autonomy." He said except health ministry, no other entity was in favour of the changes.
The committee lamented that Centre and MCI, which should complement each other, are actually at each other's throat. That its report was not to be ignored was hammered home by Singh as he told reporters that the recommendations represented the views across the political spectrum â stressing on the name of defence minister A K Antony.
The report has made a stinging indictment of the Bill's provision that MCI would stand dissolved with its adoption and would be replaced by five members to be nominated by Central government.