Hyderabad: National Medical Commission (NMC) has issued show cause notices to 12 govt and 13 private medical colleges in the state for not furnishing details of stipends paid during the current year to undergraduate and post-graduate super speciality students. Show cause notices were issued to medical colleges across the country that did not furnish the details. NMC also directed colleges to pay stipends by the 5th of every month. Government Medical College Karimnagar, Government Medical College, Nirmal, and Government Medical College, Khammam, were among govt colleges that received the notice.
Though govt medical colleges in Telangana give stipends to medical students, they were often held up for months. On the contrary, many private medical colleges do not provide stipends, often keeping it as an ‘on-paper’ practice only, claim medical students. “We are made to sign on blank papers that we received the stipend, but we do not get any,” a super speciality student from a private medical college in the city said. “Although private colleges have to pay stipends, many who transfer the money deduct it the very next day. It is done only to show in records,” Dr G Srinivas, a healthcare expert, said.
Meanwhile, the private colleges which did not furnish details include Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences, Narketpally, Neelima Institute of Medical Sciences, Medchal, CMR Institute of Medical Sciences, Father Colombo Institute of Medical Sciences, Arundathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Prathima Relief Institute of Medical Sciences, TRR Institute of Medical Sciences, Patancheru, Mahavir Institute of Medical Sciences, Vikarabad, Maheshwara Medical College, Patancheru, RVM Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Siddipet, Mallareddy Medical College for Women, Hyderabad, Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Hyderabad, and Malla Reddy Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad.
