Medical Education minister writes to Centre seeking NRI quota in govt medical colleges

KALABURAGI: Medical Education and Skill Development Minister Sharanprakash R Patil has written a letter to the Union government on Tuesday seeking NRI quotas in the government medical colleges.

He said, “I had written to the government of India and even the National Medical College (NMC). We are requesting an increase of 15 per cent in seats in the common medical colleges for the NRI quota for the self-sustainability of the colleges”.

He further said that the increase in seats in government medical colleges would help improve the quality of education and generate more money. “In the long run, if you want to improve the quality of education and have better teaching facilities in the teaching hospitals, we need to generate more money”, the minister said.

“The government is giving sufficient money, but, in the long run, I believe additional funds are required because now private medical colleges are making huge investments and I don’t want the government medical colleges to fall behind. Hence, I gave the government of India a proposal for enhancement of seats. It will be helpful for the government medical colleges”, he added.

On June 13, Sharanprakash Patil issued strict instructions to officials of his department to conduct an inspection and seal nursing colleges that had fail to provide basic infrastructure to the students after availing all the facilities from the government.

At a meeting with the members of the nursing college management and medical education department officials at the Vikasa Soudha, he received numerous complaints over the lack of infrastructure facilities in several nursing colleges. He had then instructed the Director of Medical Education, Dr Sujatha Rathore, to inspect and seal the colleges. (ANI)