[1]Hyderabad: Four new medical colleges in the state — three in the private sector and one in the government sector —have been rejected by the Medical Council of India for the year 2013-14 as they failed to meet the stipulated norms on faculty and infrastructure facilities.
All the three private colleges were planned in Hyderabad and the government college in Nellore. However, private managements are still lobbying hard to secure at least “conditional approval” by July 15, the cut-off date for MCI to grant approvals.
Interestingly, all these colleges could secure “approval” (essentiality certificate) from the state government allegedly through “political influence”, but they failed in the inspections conducted by the MCI.
The three new medical colleges in the city that secured approval from the state government in August last year were: Aleti Suneetha Medical College, Patancheru (150 seats) owned by Congress MLA from Nirmal in Adilabad district Aleti Maheshwar Reddy; St Augustine Medical College, Patancheru, owned by TRR Group of Colleges chairman T. Rammohan Reddy who is also a Congress leader from Parigi in Ranga Reddy district, and Malla Reddy Women’s Medical College, Jeedimetla, owned by chairman of Malla Reddy Group of College C. Malla Reddy, who is said to be having ‘close links’ with the Congress.
Interestingly, Malla Reddy secured a new medical college in Jeedimetla last year and got it inaugurated by CM N. Kiran Kumar Reddy.
The lone government college in Nellore could also secure approval from the state under pressure from local leader and finance minister Anam Ramnarayan Reddy, who viewed it as a ‘prestige issue’ to set up a medical college in his home district and granted funds up to `350 crore. However, the government failed to appoint the required faculty.
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