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Medical college teachers to get AICTE revised scale

KOZHIKODE: Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy said here on Sunday that teachers in government medical colleges would be paid the revised pay scale of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) when it is announced. (Medical college teachers are drawing pay as per the AICTE scale. The AICTE is revising its pay scale in accordance with the Sixth Pay Commission implemented by the Centre).

The Minister was inaugurating the 40th State annual conference of the Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association (KGMCTA) at the Calicut Medical College.

She said the government would take steps to resolve the problems in the medical sector. It will formulate guidelines for transfer, promotion and posting of doctors in consultation with the KGMCTA.

The Minister said the department had terminated the services of several teachers who failed to respond to the demand to cancel long-leave and rejoin duty, because other faculty members were being denied promotion opportunities.

The Minister said the government had raised the stipend for postgraduate superspecialty students to Rs.23,000 a month. The stipend for medical PG students would be raised to Rs.22,000, she said.

The Minister said there was nothing wrong in executing a bond on compulsory government service for all levels of medical students in medical colleges. The government provided them stipend during compulsory service. She criticised the protest by medical students against the stipulation, pointing out that the Centre was planning to bring in a Bill to make rural service compulsory for all medical students.

Ms. Sreemathy sought to know why the KGMCTA was not in favour of the setting up of a medical university in the State. The focus of the university would be on research. Only experts in the medical field would be on the governing bodies of the university, she said.

On the demand for implementing a system for rotation of heads of departments, the Minister said several faculty members of government medical colleges had advised her against implementing it now. “Let the KGMCTA evolve a consensus on the issue,” she said.

Earlier in his presidential address, KGMCTA president A. Sarath Kumar demanded that more time be allotted to government medical college doctors to focus on their teaching job.

Now, they had to attend to a large number of patients in hospitals. He said the KGMCTA was ready to forgo private practice, but salary of doctors should be revised.

The media awards instituted by the organisation were presented to K. Tony Jose of Malayala Manorama and Jimmy James of Asianet.

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