NMC gives deadline to all Medical Colleges to Submit Details of stipend paid to MBBS Interns, Resident Doctors
New Delhi: In compliance with the directions issued by the Supreme Court, asking for the details of the stipend paid to the MBBS interns and resident doctors, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed medical colleges across the country to submit the details by 23rd April 2024.
Issuing a public notice, the Apex medical education regulatory body has asked for the details of the stipend paid to their UG Interns, Post-Graduate Residents, and Senior Residents or PGs in Super Specialty for the financial year 2023-24 as per the annexure provided with the notice.
The medical colleges will have to submit the details of their name and address, the amount of stipend paid by the State Government, and the month-wise details of the stipend paid to the MBBS interns, 1st/2nd/3rd-year Post-Graduate Residents, and 1st/2nd/3rd-year Senior Residents or PGs in Super Specialty for the academic year 2023-2024.
"Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in the WP (Civil) No. 730/2022 & other cases vide their orders dt. 16.09.2023 and 01.04.2024 has directed NMC to submit the details of stipends paid to the Medical interns and residents and accordingly, all the Health Institutions / Medical colleges are hereby directed to submit to NMC the details of stipend paid to their UG Interns, Post-Graduate Residents and Senior Residents or PGs in Super Specialty for the financial year 2023-24 as per Annexure 1 on E-mail ID:- stipend23- 24@nmc.org.in by 23.04.2024 positively," NMC mentioned in the notice dated 16.04.2024.
NMC has provided a similar annexure for the details of the stipend paid to medical students for the academic year 2024-2025. However, in this regard, NMC mentioned, "Further for financial year 2024-25 onwards these details should be uploaded on the website of the Medical College / Medical Institutions concerned and required to be updated on monthly basis (by 5th of every month thereafter) as per the Annexure 2 and at the end of each financial year the complete statement be submitted to NMC on E-mail ID:- stipend24-25@nmc.org.in."
The NMC directions come after the Supreme Court order in this matter. Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the Apex Court was considering the issue of non-payment of stipends to the MBBS interns across the country. The top court bench had directed NMC to submit the details of the stipend paid to MBBS interns in all the medical colleges across all the States within four weeks.
During the last hearing of the case, the Supreme Court referred to its earlier order dated 15.09.2023, through which NMC was told to respond to the claim by filing an affidavit giving a tabulated chart of colleges that were paying the stipend to the interns and which were not paying.
Noting that the details submitted by NMC were not of all the medical colleges across all the States, the Apex Court bench comprising Justices Sudhanshhu Dhulia and Prasanna Bhalachandra Varale ordered on April 01, 2024, "The details which have been given by the National Medical Commission is not of the entire medical colleges in the States and therefore, the direction given by this Court in its order dated 15.09.2023 at para 10 had not been complied with. Let the same be done positively within a period of four weeks from today."
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