By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The North Eastern Congress Coordination Committee (NECCC) is deeply concerned over the future of the students who are pursuing their MBBS in NEIGRHIMS.
In a letter addressed to Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad recently, NECCC chairman DD Lapang said that the first batch of the MBBS students from NEIGRHIMS would complete their degree by the end of this year.
“But sadly, the final year MBBS students are still unsure whether their degree would be recognised by the Medical Council of India,” Lapang said.
According to NECCC chairman, the MCI has already completed their inspection of MD courses in the institute but recognition has not yet been granted to the MD degree students.
Stating that when AIIMS was started in 1956, it was declared an Autonomous Institute through an ‘Act of Parliament’ on the very first day of its inception. He said that even for the new six AIIMS like institutions, the Union Government has also declared them being autonomous institutes through an “Act of Parliament” by a separate ordinance this year. “In the last governing council meet held in NEIGRHIMS in February last, it was recommended that the institute should be passed through the ‘Act of Parliament’ by a separate ordinance this year along with the six new institutions,” he said.