Permit students to write MBBS exams in Hindi

The Bhopal-based Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi Vishwavidyalaya has asked the Medical Council of India (MCI) to allow the understudies to compose MBBS course papers in Hindi. At the point when competitors have an alternative to take Pre-Medical Test (PMT) in Hindi, they ought to additionally be given a comparable office in MBBS exams," college Vice-Chancellor Mohanlal Cheepa said.

"We have requested that the MCI give a choice to understudy seeking after MBBS degree course to compose their exams in Hindi the length of it is impractical for it to have Hindi as another medium of direction."

Built up in 2011, the college has been pushing for the issue of consideration of Hindi as a medium of dialect in MBBS course at medicinal establishments and has additionally examined the matter with MCI in the later past.

At the point when inquired as to why MCI was not allowing to direct MBBS course in Hindi notwithstanding the Rajbhasha Samiti giving its gesture on the issue route in 1991, Cheepa said that MCI refers to reason as absence of medicinal books in Hindi.

He said that, "MCI states that they don't have applicable books in Hindi. Accordingly, on the event of tenth World Hindi Sammelan (held here a week ago), we alongside Hindi Granth Academy gathered and showed 250-300 books (in medicinal science) to demonstrate that MBBS course can likewise be taught in Hindi."

Cheepa said he had recommended to the MCI that it can show MBBS in English the length of it is impractical in Hindi, yet a choice ought to be given to contender to compose papers in Hindi. Refering to figures from a World Health Organization (WHO) report, he said among understudies who went out from prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), 54 for every penny travel to another country for better future prospects and stay away forever.

Additionally, the report expressed that splendid understudies from Hindi medium, who are chosen for foundations like AIIMS, dominant part of them slack because of the dialect imperative while some even step of conferring suicide for neglecting to adapt to weight because of the adjustment in medium of guideline, he said.

To an inquiry, he said that out of almost 400 medicinal schools in the nation, 115 are situated in the Hindi belt, and added that he is wanting to hold a dialog with bad habit chancellors on the issue.

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MCI Common Entrance Test For MBBS, Post-Graduate Courses

The Medical Council of India (MCI) has given its nod to the proposal for holding common entrance test for MBBS, BDS and post-graduate medical courses, and has sent its recommendation to the Health Ministry.
 

The Medical Council of India (MCI) has given its nod to the proposal for holding common entrance test for MBBS, BDS and post-graduate medical courses, and has sent its recommendation to the Health Ministry.

According to Health Ministry officials, the government had sought views of MCI on the proposal following which the later in its general body meeting on October 1 approved the move.

"MCI, in its general body meeting on October 1, has backed the proposal. As per the existing policy, every state government conduct their own entrance test. Private medical college associations and deemed universities also conduct their own CET. And an aspiring candidate appears in all the exams.

"But here under the proposal, there will be a common entrance test for all medical aspirants from across the country and would be of great help to the students," said a senior Health Ministry official.

MCI has also proposed an amendment to the Medical Council of India Act, 1956 Act so that they can decide on the common test.

The move to have a common entrance test for medical students across the country was first initiated in 2009, when MCI was headed by Dr Ketan Desai.

The Supreme Court, in June 2013, had ruled the MCI's notification for holding common entrance test for MBBS, BDS and post-graduate medical courses as "invalid". A three-judge bench by a 2:1 verdict held that the notification was ultra vires of the Constitution. Click Here