Explore Faculty Rotation For Similar Quality Of Education, Services At All AIIMS Centres: Panel To Centre
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare must strictly follow the provision of the Act for appointment of Director in each new AIIMS instead of appointment of Executive Director as head
A parliamentary committee has strongly recommended the government to take necessary measures to treat the new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences at par with the premier facility in New Delhi and explore the feasibility of rotation and transfer of faculties to maintain similar quality of education as well as services. The 12th report of the Committee on Estimates on 'Review of Progress of all AIIMS' was presented in Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
It highlighted that when all the new AIIMS are being governed by the AIIMS Act 1956 as amended in the year 2012, there should not be any differences in terms of delegated financial and administrative powers for procurement of equipment and in terms of having specialties and super specialties teaching in AIIMS-Delhi and other facilities.
It said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare must strictly follow the provision of the Act for appointment of Director in each new AIIMS instead of appointment of Executive Director as head. It also advised against appointment of any person above 65 years of age for heading administrative posts. "The Committee would like to see AIIMS as an epitome of medical excellence which shall only be possible with experienced talents coupled with physical viability, which does not seem viable with an age limit of 70 years.
The Committee have strongly felt that the ministry should not overlook the fresh talent and the carrier opportunities of the existing professors for the appointment to the post of Director in new AIIMS," it stated. Henceforth, the Committee has strongly recommended that the Ministry of Health takes all measures not to make any compromises in the qualities of new AIIMS and to ensure the objective of the PMSSY (Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana), i.e to augment quality medical education in the country and strictly adhered to the provision of the AIIMS Act.
