To ensure accountability of private medical colleges , Evolving a legal principle, Colleges which do not rectify infrastructural or instructional deficiencies pointed out either by a Committee of Inspectors or Visitors of the Medical Council of India (MCI), the Madras High Court has suggested that compensatory costs should be imposed on those institutions at the rate of Rs. 2 lakh for every postgraduate student and Rs. 1 lakh for every undergraduate student passing out of them.
Stating that the MCI adopts a soft approach against such institutions and ends up punishing the students by refusing to register their degrees, the court said: “If the various measures adopted by the MCI are not producing desired results, perhaps time has come to evolve a legal principle and fasten accountability on the medical college concerned. The power to do so is clearly available both under Sections 17 and…
