It is also being alleged that some rich parents (some may be even practicing medicos) go for ‘private’ agreement with private colleges for allowing their wards to complete MD/MS even without attending the colleges regularly simply as they want MD/MS degree to be displayed in their already running private clinic against payment of heavy amounts . How far MCI has been accused of compromising with deficiencies in private colleges and playing strict as regards government colleges is not an unknown common understanding these day. More so common man is generally not benefited from the private colleges in routine since the experience has shown that the private colleges offer on ground very less free ( general) medical services to the patients and in a way directly or indirectly inflate the medical expenses through clinical / other tests even for general ward patients.
More so in the present system it is a common accusation that the doctors who come to private colleges by paying even unimaginable amounts as large as Rs 30 to 50 lakh for MBBS seats and thereafter may spend another Rs 30 to 100 lakh for MD/MS seat when come to field they have to give priority to medical enterprising / business over medical ethics and hence will only like to serve the effluent class or those helpless common people who have to even at occasion put their family survival at risk worth arranging hefty sums by selling their properties / taking loans. Now with NEET like qualifying system atleast some check will be put on the private colleges to overcharge the applicants and may be doctors coming out form such colleges in return do a little less fleecing of patients.
Some people may be pained with my observations , some may say that in case I have such information that must be shared with government so that action could be taken against the accused. But to them I shall say that what I have said is what may be 90 % of Indian people too be feeling and could be observed by law enforcing agencies without much difficulty in case they really want to perform their duty. Those who still would feel that what I have said is wrong, may kindly excuse me.
J&K Government had appealed against the order on new scheme of TEEN inSupreme Court of India ( Supreme Court on 28th April last paved the way for National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) 2016 for admission into medical colleges directing the Centre and CBSE to go ahead and conduct two-phase single common entrance test for MBBS, BDS and PG courses through the NEET ).
One of the Administrative Secretaries of J&K Government was quoted as having said on 28th April that since J&K has a ‘special status’ under Art-370 of Constitution of India so Supreme Court decision of 28th April cannot have its affect on J&K .as regards admissions in local medical / dental colleges, J&K Government will go on appeal.And J&K Government has gone for appeal.
There is nothing wrong in going for appeal in Court against an executive order or a court order but the way the government representatives / spokespersons have been quoted making objections in media as regards TEEN surely needs to be objected keeping in view the direct or indirect controversies that have been all these years used by the mainstream political parties for their political game plans even concerning the sensitive issues like 1947 accession of J&K with India, constitutional oneness of J&K, J&K being ‘total’ India like Punjab or UP.
All these years Art-370 has remained under debates, more particularly it has been named for providing ‘Special Status’.to J&K and has been more used by some people to project J&K as a state ‘distantly’ placed from India as compared to UP or Punjab. Where as it is no more than a simple article of constitution of India where under subjects falling in Union list , concurrent list and J&K specific State list could be identified and it no where provides any Special Status to J&K in Constitution of India.
Unfortunately over the years Art-370 of constitution of India has been projected by some in such a way that inspite of their calling it a ‘special status’ article for J&K the controversies over it have been of more of damage to people of J&K to the extent that local people have been divided on regional lines.
Better way for the State Government would have been to plead on the ground that the NEET scheme 2010 for admission to MBBS & BDS courses cannot be applied to J&K since the subject falls in J&K specific ‘state list’ and not by making reference of ‘some’ non-existent constitutional special status of J&K in public statements. But .the way the issue has been projected through media statements on 28 April2016 order of Apex court concerning validity of NEET scheme of MCI 2010 , it has been in a way like challenging authority of India wrt J&K State. A state bureaucrat making public statements referring Art 370 & constitutional special status of J&K is highly undesirable.Rather Mehbooba Mufti as Chief Minister should reorient her people including bureaucracy onconstitutional concepts. Rather copy of the written reply made in Rajya Sabha on 11th March 2015 by MOHA to starred question 138 (Anil Desai MP ) {(a) whether it is a fact that through Article 370, the Constitution gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir } stating that “(a): in the Constitution of India, there is no mention of ‘Special Status to Jammu and Kashmir’. Article 370 provides for ‘Temporary provisions with respect to the State of Jammu and Kashmir'” should be circulated to all senior officers and ministers / MLAs so that all correct their concepts on some constitutional facts.
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(Daya Sagar is a Sr journalist and a social activist can be reached at dayasagr45@yahoo.com).