Ahmedabad Medical College to be renamed Narendra Modi Medical college
National Medical Commission approval
Ahmedabad: The National Medical Commission (NMC) on Tuesday has given its approval for change in the name of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Medical Education Trust Medical College, Ahmedabad to Narendra Modi Medical College, Ahmedabad.
The NMC wrote to the dean of the medical college to convey the go ahead by the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) for changing the name of the institution.
The Medical Education Trust (MET) runs the college in Ahmedabad's Maninagar area. According to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) standing committee chairman, nearly 300 medical students take admission in this college every year in under-graduate and postgraduate courses.
The educational institute is affiliated to the AMC-run LG Hospital which has 1,050 beds. The college, founded in 2009 when Modi was Gujarat CM, is one of the three medical colleges run by the AMC MET in the city. Two others are NHL Municipal Medical College and AMC Dental College.
A few months ago, a proposal to christen the medical college after Prime Minister Narendra Modi was unanimously passed in a standing committee meeting held in September. The college was built when Modi was Gujarat Chief Minister.
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