With the Medical Council of India stressing on Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) system to track the teaching staff, the medical
colleges both in the government as well as private sector will find it hard to
recruit ''ghost faculty'' (who actually do not exist and remain on paper only)
for a day at the time of annual inspections. Many of the colleges resort to
such practice so that they get approvals from MCI for increasing the number of
seats.
Various Medical organisations such as the Indian Medical
Association and the Kerala Government Medical College Teachers Association
(KGMCTA) have welcomed the move to introduce biometric scanners. However, they
also opined that apart from the new systems that the MCI is introducing, an
overall revamp of the medical education system is the need of the hour.
The MCI has given instructions to all Medical colleges to
immediately set up the RFID system. Through the system, The details of the
attendance of doctors can be monitored even from Delhi
The new instructions gain significance in the wake of
concerns raised among the medical fraternity with respect to the redeployment
of doctors to the two new medical colleges at Idukki and Manjeri.
Indian Medical Association national president A Marthanda
Pillai said that IMA supported the move to make the system fool proof but this
only cannot bring in any comprehensive change in the whole system. ''We have to
see how far the system is going to be effective, he said but cautioned that
problems could also crop up if more stringent measures are brought in.
Source: The new Indian express
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