Taking Strong Objection to Government Plan to Scrap MCI, president of the Medical Council of India which has been under the scanner for corruption and is currently being monitored by a three-member committee mandated by the Supreme Court, has said that the Council was not ‘given a reasonable opportunity’ to present its side of the story. She said the negative attention on the MCI, following a report by a Parliamentary Standing Committee, was unfair and claimed the report did not reflect reality. “We sought time from the Parliamentary Committee but were not given any time.
To that extent, the Medical Council was denied the mandatory opportunity of hearing, which the principles of natural justice guarantee,” the president of MCI said, adding that the Parliamentary Standing Committee did not bring out any specific complaints of corruption of any type and magnitude. On the decision of the…
