Ahmedabad Medical College to be renamed Narendra Modi Medical college
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.
Hitesh Barot, chairman of the municipal corporation's standing committee had announced that the 'AMC MET Medical College', which runs from the campus of AMC-run LG Hospital in Maninagar area of the city, will be known as 'Narendra Modi Medical College'.
Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that it was Barot who had first floated the idea of renaming the college during MET's executive committee meeting held in September, 2022.
The trust accepted Barot's proposal and submitted the same for consideration during the next standing committee meeting as an "urgent matter". The proposal was unanimously passed during the meeting.
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Lately, the apex medical commission has shown a green flag to the proposal of changing the name of the medical college on Tuesday. The letter sent to the Dean of the medical read;
"The undersigned is directed to refer your email dated 01.12.2022 on the subject cited above to convey the approval of the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) for name change of medical college from Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Medical Education Trust Medical College, Ahmedabad to Narendra Modi Medical College, Ahmedabad."
