PUNE: Plans are afoot to convert four government-run medical colleges in Maharashtra, including Pune's B J Medical College (BJMC), into institutions with autonomous status. The move will enable the college administrations to upgrade their institutes and attached hospitals, start new courses, take financial decisions, and fill up vacancies on their own to enhance patient-care.
"The Department of Medical Education and Research (DMER) is preparing a combined dossier in this regard which will be submitted to the state government for consideration shortly. Four state-run medical colleges in Maharashra have been asked to submit their proposals to get the autonomous status," Pravin Shingare, acting director of DMER, told TOI on Monday.
The colleges vying for the autonomous status are BJMC, Grant Medical College, Mumbai, Government Medical College, Nagpur, and Government Medical College, Aurangabad.
Autonomous status is akin to the deemed varsity status, where the institution has the power to plan and conduct examinations, offer undergraduate and postgraduate diploma courses as well as short-term certificate courses, and fix the curriculum and calendar of events for the academic year.
Elaborating, Shingare said, "This doesn't mean that the colleges will stop receiving annual financial allocations from the state government. The government will continue to support these institutes financially; the hospitals attached to these colleges cater to a large number of patients from the economically weaker sections of society, extending medical care to whom is the state's responsibility. Hence, the autonomous status will not result in undue hike in tuition fees or charges for medical services. The move will not affect patients and students."
BJMC has already submitted its proposal to the DMER. "We sent our proposal to the DMER last week. We hope that college becomes the first government-run medical college in Maharashtra to get the autonomous status," said senior orthopaedic surgeon Ajay Chandanwale, dean of BJMC and Sassoon General Hospital.
This is a very good initiative as the status will allow us to upgrade various specialities in the Sassoon General Hospital, fill vacancies and bring in experts from outside. As a result, patients from the middle and higher middle classes of society, who pay hefty charges in private hospitals at present, will opt for our hospital. Poor and below poverty line families will continue to get free services at the hospital, he added.
The BJMC authorities had formed a committee, under the chairmanship of the dean, to draft the proposal for autonomous status. "The committee studied frameworks of the autonomous colleges in the city like the Fergusson College and College of Engineering, Pune, before sending the final proposal," Chandawale said.
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"The Department of Medical Education and Research (DMER) is preparing a combined dossier in this regard which will be submitted to the state government for consideration shortly. Four state-run medical colleges in Maharashra have been asked to submit their proposals to get the autonomous status," Pravin Shingare, acting director of DMER, told TOI on Monday.
The colleges vying for the autonomous status are BJMC, Grant Medical College, Mumbai, Government Medical College, Nagpur, and Government Medical College, Aurangabad.
Autonomous status is akin to the deemed varsity status, where the institution has the power to plan and conduct examinations, offer undergraduate and postgraduate diploma courses as well as short-term certificate courses, and fix the curriculum and calendar of events for the academic year.
Elaborating, Shingare said, "This doesn't mean that the colleges will stop receiving annual financial allocations from the state government. The government will continue to support these institutes financially; the hospitals attached to these colleges cater to a large number of patients from the economically weaker sections of society, extending medical care to whom is the state's responsibility. Hence, the autonomous status will not result in undue hike in tuition fees or charges for medical services. The move will not affect patients and students."
BJMC has already submitted its proposal to the DMER. "We sent our proposal to the DMER last week. We hope that college becomes the first government-run medical college in Maharashtra to get the autonomous status," said senior orthopaedic surgeon Ajay Chandanwale, dean of BJMC and Sassoon General Hospital.
This is a very good initiative as the status will allow us to upgrade various specialities in the Sassoon General Hospital, fill vacancies and bring in experts from outside. As a result, patients from the middle and higher middle classes of society, who pay hefty charges in private hospitals at present, will opt for our hospital. Poor and below poverty line families will continue to get free services at the hospital, he added.
The BJMC authorities had formed a committee, under the chairmanship of the dean, to draft the proposal for autonomous status. "The committee studied frameworks of the autonomous colleges in the city like the Fergusson College and College of Engineering, Pune, before sending the final proposal," Chandawale said.
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