Medical education holds an important position in the economy of the country because it has the capacity of giving out the best and skilled human resources in the field of medicine and ultimately to the humanity. But what if the institutes offering the education fall into the disputed zone by making it more of a business than pure educational endeavor? Just a few days back, the Honourable Supreme Court of India has imposed a five crore fine on a private medical college for its rotten state.

A private medical college in the state of Odisha has been imposed a penalty of Rs. 5 crore by the Supreme Court of India for its inadequate state of infrastructure calling it ‘rotten’ ; when it raised the number of seats from 100 to 150 in an academic year. The court has repressed the private medical college from upping the number of students for the academic years of 2016-17 and 2017-18 to additional…