Pay Stipend As per NMC Rules: DMER Haryana directs Private Medical Colleges

Rohtak: Taking cognisance of the complaints regarding the payment of stipends to medical students, the Department of Medical Education and Research (DMER) has issued directions to all private medical colleges across the State to pay stipends to their interns and PG medical students as per the National Medical Commission (NMC) rules and also in compliance with the government notifications issued from time to time in this respect.

In this regard, the DMER has asked the principals of all the medical colleges to ensure compliance with these directives. The office of the Director-General has recently sent a letter regarding this to MM College of Medical Sciences, Mullana (Ambala), SGT Medical College and Research Institute, Budhera, Gurugram, Adesh Medical College and Hospital, Shahabad (Kurukshetra), Al-Falah Medical College, Dhouj (Faridabad), NC Medical College, Israna (Panipat), World College of Medical Science, Jhajjar, Maharishi Markandeshwar Medical College, Sadopur (Ambala) and Amrita School of Medicine, Faridabad.

This comes after, the DMER received complaints alleging that some of the medical colleges were violating the NMC guidelines and the State Government rules regarding the payment of stipend to the MBBS interns and PG resident doctors, sources informed The Tribune.

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One such complaint, which was submitted to the CM Window portal, alleged that three private medical colleges having the affiliation with Pt BD Sharma University of Health Sciences (UHS), Rohtak, were paying only Rs 40,000 per month to its MD/MS students when the State Government was paying almost double.

As per the latest media report by The Tribune, the complainant claimed that as per the guidelines, the monthly stipend paid to the PG resident doctors at government medical colleges is Rs 86,170 for the first year, Rs 88,781 for the second year, and Rs 91,392 for the third year. However, violating the guidelines, the private medical colleges were paying only Rs 40,000 per month.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that recently releasing the final Post-Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023 (PGMER 2023), which were published in the official Gazette on 29.12.2023, the National Medical Commission (NMC) introduced uniformity in the amount of stipend paid to the PG medicos in a particular State/UT.

The Commission specified that the PG medicos who are pursuing degree, diploma or super-speciality courses should be paid a stipend at par with the stipend being paid to the PG students of Government institutes, in that particular State/UT.

In fact, through a notification dated August 9, 2023, the State Government also clearly stated that all PG students irrespective of specialities of MD/MS course were to be paid stipend on par with the stipend paid by the government to the PG students, the complainant highlighted.

Meanwhile, another complainant highlighted how his daughter was getting only Rs 40,000 as stipend from a private medical college. He mentioned, "Besides the government, the NMC notification dated December 29, 2023, also states that the PG students of all institutes will be paid stipend on a par with the government- run medical colleges in the state concerned but the guidelines are not being followed by the private colleges."

Commenting on the matter, the Director-General (DMER) Dr. Saket Kumar confirmed that directions have been issued to the medical colleges asking them to pay stipend as per the NMC and the government notifications.

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