The Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association (TNGDA) has opposed the installation of CCTV cameras inside classrooms at medical colleges, and has decided to move the court against the decision of the Medical Council of India (MCI). Amending the Minimum Standard Requirement for 50/100/150/200/250 MBBS Admissions Annually Regulations, 1999, the MCI had issued a gazette notification in January stating the Council will install biometric fingerprint attendance for capturing faculty attendance and that every medical college will have Close Circuit Televisions (CCTV) to provide live streaming of both classroom teaching and patient care, which can be anytime observed by MCI Inspector sitting in Delhi.
Since there were complaints that the System Integrator (SI), appointed by the Council to implement new regulations as per notification, was not being attended to properly by the medical colleges,…
