Odisha HRD

Finally the CM asks for upgrading the 3 state medical colleges to AIIMS level under PMSSY; He should ask the Agriculture ministry for a Central Agricultural University

Following is an excerpt from  a report in Orissadiary.

Odisha Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik today met the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad in New Delhi. Chief Minister informed the  Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare that the proposal to raise the number of seats for admission to MBBS Course from 150 to 250, would necessitate significant increase in the infrastructure of the Medical Colleges in the State.

He requested that the three Medical Colleges of the State may be approved for upgradation to AIIMS like Institutions under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) along with sanction of Rs.432 crore for the purpose. He added that the State has identified an alternative site for establishment of a Regional Institute of Paramedical Sciences at Bhubaneswar for which Government of India may sanction the funds forming part of Central Share component.  

… Chief Minister urged upon the Union Minister to appreciate the just needs of the State for augmenting medical infrastructure and creating new specialized medical institutions. He requested the Union Minister to establish a National Cancer Institute at Bhubaneswar and a Regional Geriatric Centre at SCB Medical College, Cuttack. He further informed that State has already identified 20 acres of land for setting up of the Central Research Institute of Yoga and Naturopathy. Accordingly, Government of India may sanction the required funds to enable early establishment of the Institute along with 100 bedded Hospital, at the earliest.

… The Union Minister assured the Chief Minister that the issues raised by him will receive priority attention of the Ministry. He agreed to provide necessary funds for upgrading the infrastructure of the three Medical Colleges in the State.

… Union Minister promised to take urgent steps for establishing the Regional Institute of Para Medical Sciences at Bhubaneswar.

He assured that the Central Share for the Odisha State Treatment Fund shall be released very shortly and that additional funds will be provided for strengthening the Regional Cancer Centre at Cuttack. Further, the request of Odisha for a stand-alone Cancer Institute will be considered as and when adequate funds are available for the purpose in the Central Budget.
Union Minister agreed to establish a Regional Geriatric Centre at SCB Medical College, Cuttack and requested that Government of Odisha may handover the identified 20 acres of land for setting up of Central Research Institute of Yoga and Naturopathy.

We have been writing the CMO and others about approaching the Health ministry regarding the upgradation of the state medical colleges. See:

• https://www.orissalinks.com/archives/7133.
• https://www.orissalinks.com/archives/6601.
• https://www.orissalinks.com/archives/5859.
• https://www.orissalinks.com/archives/4042.

It took a long time, but its good that he finally did it.

I hope he also pursues a Central Agricultural University in Odisha. More on this in a separate post.

1 comment March 7th, 2012

Construction of AIIMS-like institute in Bhubaneswar is 65% complete; first batch with 50 students to start in August this year; Center coming up with a scheme to fund 100-150 crores per college for upgradation of the three state medical colleges

Following is an excerpt from a report in Business Standard.

The fist academic session of the city centre of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) medical college is set to begin from August this year. The 500-bed multi-speciality hospital is expected to start functioning from December 2012.

“The session for the first batch of students for AIIMS medical college will begin from August 2012 with an intake of 50 seats. We expect the hospital to be operational from December this year. Work on the AIIMS campus is 65 per cent complete,” said P K Pradhan, Union health secretary. On the state government’s demand for funds for seat hike in three government run medical colleges, Pradhan said, “The Chief Secretary has said that the state government intends to raise intake of each of three medical colleges from 150 to 250. This requires an investment of Rs 100-150 crore per college for infrastructure upgrade. We are coming up with a scheme wherein we can provide funds to the state government for upgradation of infrastructure at medical colleges.”

Various Odia papers report that as of today 65% of the Hospital building construction and 70% of the college building construction are completed.

8 comments January 31st, 2012

Work in progress for SCB to have 250 MBBS seats from 2012-13

December 13th, 2011

Seat availability to study medicine, dentistry and pharmacy in Odisha via Odisha JEE 2011

The following is extracted from the Odisha JEE 2011 brochure. Thanks to a post in rourkelacity.com for the pointer.

Note that in addition medicine and dentistry seats are also available at KIMS (part of KIIT) and IMS (part of SOA) Bhubaneswar.

May 9th, 2011

SCB Medical College to have a 30 crore center of excellence in Psychiatry: Dharitri

April 13th, 2010

SCB Dental department becomes a Dental college with its own principal; PG and superspeciality seats increased in the three govt. medical colleges of Odisha: Samaja

1 comment February 1st, 2010

Existing health related institutes in Orissa

Following is from http://www.orissa.gov.in/health_portal/index.html.

Medical & Dental Colleges:

Ayurvedic Colleges:

Government Institutions

Private Institutions:

Homeopathic Colleges:

Government Institutions

Private Institutions:

Nursing Colleges:

Pharmacy Colleges:

6 comments December 10th, 2009

SCB BDS seats increased to 50 (from 20) but lacks enough hostels: Samaja

March 23rd, 2009

School of Life Science, four star colleges and an infectious disease research unit

Following is an excerpt from a report in Pioneer. (See also this report in New Indian Express.)

Union Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Kapil Sibal on Friday said a School of Life Science would be established in one of the universities of the State.

Addressing a Press Conference here, Sibal said the Centre would provide all help in establishing the Infectious Disease Research Unit in the premises of the SCB Medical College, Cuttack. He was here to lay the foundation stone for a new research building of Institute of Life Science

Sibal further said that the Research Unit would be set up with the help of the Institute of Life Science. "Four existing colleges will be given the status of star college in Orissa," he announced, adding that the star college would be equipped with all sorts of modern facilities and technology. Students would be encouraged to take up research works particularly in the field of bio-technology. "Biotechnology has to play a key role in the country’s development," he said.

April 5th, 2008

Data and observations on Medical Counseling Day 1 and 2

Total Seats:

• SCB Medical (150)
• MKCG Medical (150)
• VSS Medical (150)
• KIMS Medical (100) – 70 through JEE
• IMS Medical (100) –   70 through JEE
• HiTech Medical (100) – 70 through JEE
• SCB Dental (about 20)
• KIIT Dental (100) – 70 through JEE
• IDS Dental (100) – 70 through JEE
• Hi-Tech Dental (100) – 70 through JEE
• Gandhi Dental (50) –  35 through JEE

Day 1:

• Schedule: GE (general) 1-580, SC 1-85, ST 1-110, PH (physically handicapped) 1-18, MI (military) 1-48, GC (green card- i.e. parents have less than or equal to 2 kids) 1-156
• Seats available at End of Day 1:
  • SCB (govt) Medical (GE 0, SC 0, ST 0, PH 0, MI 0, GC 0 )
  • MKCG (govt) Medical (GE 0, SC 0, ST 0, PH 2, MI 0, GC 0)
  • VSS (govt) Medical (GE 0, SC 0, ST 0, PH 3, MI 0, GC 0 )
  • KIMS Medical (GE 49 , SC 5, ST 7, PH 0, MI 0, GC 4 )
  • IMS Medical (GE 51, SC 4 , ST 9, PH 0, MI 0 , GC3 )
  • HiTech Medical (GE 50 , SC 5, ST 7, PH 0 , MI 0 , GC 4)
  • SCB Dental (GE 0, SC 0, ST 0, PH 0, MI 0, GC 0 )
  • KIIT Dental (GE 52 , SC 5, ST 8, PH 0, MI 0, GC 3 )
  • IDS Dental (GE 52 , SC 6, ST 8, PH 0, MI 0, GC 4 )
  • Hi-Tech Dental (GE 52, SC 5, ST 8, PH 0, MI 0 , GC 3)
  • Gandhi Dental  (GE 26, SC 3, ST 4, PH 0, MI 0, GC 2)

Day 2:

• Schedule: GE 581-1504,  ST 111-128, GC 157-360
• Seats available at End of Day 2:
  • SCB (govt) Medical (GE 0, SC 0, ST 0, PH 0, MI 0, GC 0 )
  • MKCG (govt) Medical (GE 0, SC 0, ST 0, PH 2, MI 0, GC 0)
  • VSS (govt) Medical (GE 0, SC 0, ST 0, PH 3, MI 0, GC 0 )
  • KIMS Medical (GE 18, SC 5, ST 7, PH 0, MI 0, GC 4 )
  • IMS Medical (GE 36, SC 4 , ST 9, PH 0, MI 0 , GC3 )
  • HiTech Medical (GE 42 , SC 5, ST 7, PH 0 , MI 0 , GC 4)
  • SCB Dental (GE 0, SC 0, ST 0, PH 0, MI 0, GC 0 )
  • KIIT Dental (GE 51, SC 5, ST 8, PH 0, MI 0, GC 3)
  • IDS Dental (GE 49, SC 6, ST 8, PH 0, MI 0, GC 4 )
  • Hi-Tech Dental (GE 51, SC 5, ST 8, PH 0, MI 0 , GC 3)
  • Gandhi Dental  (GE 26, SC 3, ST 4, PH 0, MI 0, GC 2)

Observations:

1. Orissa does not have enough rich families that can afford to send their kids to private medical colleges.
2. Thus there is a need for more government medical colleges.
3. Among the private medical colleges the order of preference seems to be KIMS followed by IMS followed by Hi-Tech. Its interesting that among these three Hi-Tech is the oldest and the other two only got MCI approval this year. However the other two are either part of or associated with deemed universities.

11 comments August 10th, 2007

Ad about JEE Recounseling for Medical seats

3 comments August 8th, 2007

SCB got back the 43 seats it had recently lost

Dharitri has reported that SCB has got back the 43 seats it had recently lost.

July 7th, 2007

Seat reduction at SCB Medical college; CM writes to center

Various news reports initially reported that the MCI (Medical Council of India) has reduced the number of MBBS seats in the SCB Medical College from 150 to 103. (Last year it had increased it from 103 to 150 after it had told Orissa what improvements need to be made and Orissa had agreed to that.) Recent reports mention that the CM of Orissa has written to the health minister in Delhi requesting him to change the MCI’s decision and have 150 seats.

At least the CM/Orissa govt. should come out and say what they were asked to do by MCI (or they had promised to MCI to do) and what they have done since the MCI had initially increased the seats from 103 to 150. This should have been mentioned in the press release related to the CM’s letter.

If Orissa indeed did what it promised to MCI (or what was asked by MCI) then they have a valid reason to complain and there is a point to the CM’s letter. If Orissa did not do what it promised to MCI (or what was asked by MCI) Orissa should first on an emergency basis fulfill those conditions and only then Orissa should request/beg the MCI to allow the extra seats.

July 6th, 2007