The Medical Council of India (MCI), which is supposed to be the nation's conscience keeper when it comes to medical education and services, suffered the ignominy of being asked to pay up an 'exemplary cost' of Rs 1 crore by the Madras high court for its failure to enforce its own code on mandatory 50-50 seat surrender for all institutions offering medical education, including deemed universities. The Justice ruled that from the year 2000 onwards if seats had been shared between the institutions and the respective states, thousands of seats would have been available to poor meritorious students or meritorious students in a less/ affordable rate of fees.
The MCI had deliberately failed and neglected to discharge its obligation and gone against the interest of the public. The judge, who lambasted the MCI directed it to deposit Rs 1 crore in favour of Spastics Society of Tamil Nadu, said…
