North MCD-run medical college gets MCI nod

The uncertainty over the future of North MCD’s medical college Bara Hindu Rao is finally over as the Medical Council of India (MCI) and Union ministry of Health and Family Welfare has given it a go ahead to start the second batch for academic session 2014-15.

The college ran into trouble after MCI had denied them permission to continue with the second batch for lack of infrastructure. The MCI team, during the inspection had found out that the college did not have permanent faculty and lecture halls among other things.

Consequently, the North MCD had given an undertaking to MCI that the issues would be addressed soon. ‘The required faculties have been hired and new recruitment is also scheduled to take place very soon. Besides, suitable hostel accommodation has also been provided and labs have also been established in the college campus’, informed Mohan Bhardwaj, chairman of standing committee in North MCD during its meeting.  

He also informed that the infrastructure of the college will be improved further. ‘New building for the college, Wi-Fi facility, library, new hostel block, cafeteria and other facilities for recreation are in the pipeline’, he said. An amalgamation scheme to allow merger of small housing plots and construct houses after getting the layout approved by the corporation architects, was also announced during the meeting.

Bhardwaj said: ‘To put a cap on unauthorised construction of houses and corruption related practices, we will allow merger of small plots up to the limit of 64 sqaure metre.’ The move is likely to help thousands and lakhs of people owning small plots in Delhi.

Meanwhile, the corporation’s ambitious plan to allot UPIC (Unique Property Identification Code) card for each property was also passed by the standing committee. The corporation would spend Rs 30 crore on the project. After issuing of UPIC, the tax payer may get full data of their property, including the date of tax payment leaving no scope for defaulters to run away from payment.