Vikas Vaidya

 By Vikas Vaidya It seems that Medical Council of India, has become more student-centric. First it has given the status of Vice-Dean to the lead students of the college, now it has taken another such decision through which meritorious students of medical faculty will get privilege of unfurling the national flag. This was in terms of the initiative undertaken by Dr. Vedprakash Mishra, Chairman, Academic Committee of the Medical Council of India Dr. Reena Nayyar, Secretary In-charge, MCI has sent the circular to Deans and Principals of all medical colleges in India. The circular says the meritorious students at the university examinations of the concerned medical colleges should be conferred with the honor and distinction of ‘unfurling the National Flag’ on the occasion of ‘Independence Day and Republic Day on rotational basis’. This should be done as a part of healthy practice of recognising the meritorious work of the students in a medical college. The said recommendation was plac

By Vikas Vaidya Maharashtra Government has decided to conduct Combined Common Entrance Test (CET) for the admissions to health sciences as well as engineering courses, from 2016. Four years ago State Government used to conduct such test which was controlled by Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) successfully. State Government had successfully conducted combined CET for around four years. But then Medical Council of India (MCI) had brought National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) that was conducted only in one year. Private medical colleges approached Supreme Court and NEET got canceled. Then both CETs got separated for engineering and health science courses. In the year 2014, Government started participating in Joint Entrance Engineering (JEE) for admission to engineering courses. This year State Government conducted its own CET for health sciences courses. In a bid to reduce the stress of appearing for multiple Common Entrance Tests (CET), Minister of Education