The Medical Council of India (MCI) will begin installing CCTV cameras in classrooms, laboratories and out-patient departments (OPDs) of all medical colleges and associated hospitals by the end of this month as part of measures to weed out “ghost” and absent faculty. The initiative is a part of MCI’s Digital Mission Mode Project (DMMP). All regulatory mechanisms will be online to ensure professors turn up to teach and train students. The MCI’s attempts to make the biometric attendance compulsory for teaching staff in medical colleges last year had failed.
“People did not regularly mark attendance and in some cases, the machines were found broken and not repaired. Installing CCTVs should help,” said secretary MCI. The installation of cameras will be done in phases and is expected to be completed in all 497 colleges by the year-end. The footage will be tracked real-time from a monitoring…
