Loss of Identity: AIIMS Faculty members object to renaming AIIMS Delhi

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It further said that the AIIMS, New Delhi will face severe loss of identity and demoralization if the name is changed. It will also affect the standing of India internationally as far as medical education, patient care, and research is concerned.

"FAIMS believes this will lead to the impending loss of identity of AIIMS. AIIMS was created in 1956 with a trinity of missions for medical education, research, and patient care. It has fulfilled its mission right since its inception. As of now, it is consistently ranked first in the NIRF rankings of medical institutions," it said.

"Identity is linked with the name. If identity is lost, institutional recognition is lost both within the country and outside. That is why famous and established institutes have with the same names for centuries continued like Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard universities," it added.

FAIMS also mentioned the identity of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), whose name has not been changed.

"In India, IITs have a name recognition which gives them an institution's identity, and there is no proposal to change it. The same is true for AIIMs. Indian Institute of Science, which celebrated its 100 years of productive life, also has not changed its name. Also, the sense of identity is so strong, that Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras Universities continue with the same name even though the cities they are located in have changed names to Kolkata, Mumbai, and Chennai," the letter added.

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