THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj June 30: A six-year-old medical college gets a lifeline of 4 months to prove and establish it has rectified all its deficiencies.
And this medical college is Medinirai Medical College Hospital at Pokhraha in Daltonganj, Palamu, which since the days of its functioning in the year 2019, remains in news mostly for wrong reasons. It’s one full academic year 2020-21 was disbanded by the then Medical Commission of India, later known as the National Medical Commission (NMC).
The National Medical Commission does speak of stringent action but is silent on the fate of those students who will by then be admitted here.
The UGMEB (Undergraduate Medical Education Board) of the National Medical Commission has granted ‘conditional renewal’ of 100 seats of the MBBS in the academic year 2025-26.
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Review to Follow; Action if Gaps Remain
A letter from the director, Sukh Lal Meena of UGMEB, dated June 28, addressed to the principal of MMCH Daltonganj, read that this ‘conditional renewal’ is ‘subject to rectification of deficiencies within 4 months from issuance of this letter dated June 28.’
‘The Jharkhand Story’ has a copy of this letter with it.
The letter further read that there would be a review of this college by the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) after 4 months and ‘if deficiencies persist at the time of review’ then the UGMEB will initiate ‘stringent action’ under the provisions of the Maintenance of Standards of Medical Education Regulations, 2023.
The stringent action is a penalty upto Rs one crore per deficiency.
Deficiencies Identified, Partial Fix Claimed
Here in the MMCH, the UGMEB and MARB have detected as many as 11 deficiencies in its review/ assessment done in 2025.
Some among the 11 deficiencies are faculty crunch, shortage of cadavers, shortage of beds, poor occupancy of beds, inadequate minor and major OTs, absence of skill lab, non-availability of histopathology and cytopathology, and biochemistry investigation.
Following these deficiencies, the NMC had issued a show cause notice to the MMCH Daltonganj this May 2025 to explain why deficiencies continue to persist despite assurances of the medical college to tide over the deficiencies.
In response to the show cause notice, the MMCH Daltonganj had claimed to have rectified 2 of the 9 deficiencies.
UGMEB has once again asked for the rectification of the remaining seven deficiencies when it granted conditional renewal.
NMC Cautions, But Grants Reprieve for Region’s Benefit
Taking a lenient view and in the interest of the medical education in such a place like Palamu, the UGMEB has granted conditional renewal of 100 admissions for the academic year 2025- 26 with a rider to remove all seven deficiencies in the coming 4 months or face stringent action.
Sources said the stringent action means a penalty which is sky touching just around 1 crore per fault or deficiency.
