The Medical Council of India (MCI) pulled up the Telangana state government over a controversial government order issued earlier this year in May, allowing private medical colleges to collect stipend worth Rs 50 crore from post-graduate medicos. The apex medical council swung into action after a string of complaints poured in from different quarters over illegal collection of stipend from medicos.
In a strongly worded letter, MCI's post graduate committee secretary Reena Nayyar, asked the director of medical education in Telangana to respond immediately on what grounds it permitted private medical colleges to violate regulations and asked money from students, instead of paying them the mandatory stipend. "The private medical colleges seem to have misled the state government to allow them to collect Rs 50 crore of stipends from around 625 PG medicos for their entire three-year period…
