MUHS Report reveals Acute Faculty Shortage in GMCs- 10 functioning with less than 50 percent teaching staff
Faculty Shortage
Mumbai: Highlighting major concerns regarding the quality of medical education in Maharashtra, a recent inspection report by the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), Nashik, revealed an acute shortage of teaching faculty in the government medical colleges across the State.
As per the MUHS inspection report, not a single government medical college and hospital in Maharashtra has 100% of its teaching posts filled. In fact, ten GMCs in the State are reportedly functioning with less than half the sanctioned teaching staff, TOI has reported.
The Local Inspection Committee of MUHS evaluated the medical colleges for the academic year 2024-2025. It was revealed in the report that not a single one of the 25 government medical colleges and hospitals filled all the posts of Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors.
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As per the latest media report by the Times of India, the report revealed that 10 of these 25 medical colleges have less than 50% of the required teaching staff, resulting in an increased workload for the existing faculty.
Even though the condition is better in cities like Mumbai, Nagpur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Kolhapur, Nanded, and Latur, where the number of faculty is better, the situation is alarming in several other cities such as Ratnagiri, Satara, Sindhudurg etc.
In this regard, the report revealed that only 11.76% of the sanctioned posts are filled in Ratnagiri, 34.12% in Parbhani, 40% in Satara, 42.35% in Sindhudurg, 44.29% in Gondia, 45% in Alibag, 46.63% in Chandrapur, 50.30% in Jalgaon, 54% in Dharashiv, and 54.25% in Nandurbar.
Commenting on the matter, a senior official from the State Medical Education Department, informed TOI on the condition of anonymity, that a large number of faculty positions are expected to be filled soon through the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) and also via contractual appointments. "This will help ease the shortage", claimed the official.
Stressing on the urgent requirement for recruitment, the State President of Maharashtra Medical Teachers' Association, Dr. Sameer Golawar, said, "To ensure quality medical education, the government must immediately fill all vacant teaching posts in government medical colleges through the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) and the MPSC."
Meanwhile, the government medical colleges that have the highest percentage of teaching posts filled include Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Government Medical College, Nagpur, Grant Medical College, Mumbai, B.J. Medical College, Pune, and the medical colleges in Kohlapur, Nanded, Latur, Nagpur, Dhuke, and Akola.
