Sunitha.Rao@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru: 25.02.2021
Nearly 7,000 MBBS graduates who have completed their internship in Karnataka over the past few months are set to be assigned for mandatory rural service for one year.
The service, which was mandatory for only government-quota candidates, is now being extended to private, management and NRI quota candidates for the first time this year.
If doctors want to take up higher studies, then they must submit a bond for Rs 30 lakh to Rs 50 lakh, stating their willingness to serve later. Karnataka is the only state where private, management and NRI quota candidates are required to do the mandatory rural service.
On February 15, the director of medical education, Dr PG Girish, sent a letter to heads of all government and private medical colleges in Karnataka asking them not to release the original documents to those who have completed undergraduate, postgraduate degree/diploma, super-specialty courses in various disciplines. The letter quoted the Karnataka Compulsory Service Training by Candidates Completed Medical Courses Act, 2012.
No clarity: Director of medical edu
You are requested not to release original documents unless you receive NOC/instructions to release the documents collected at the time of admission, from this office. This may be scrupulously followed,” the letter, a copy of which is with TOI, read.
Though the compulsory one-year rural service bond is being taken by the government since 2012, enforcement had not taken place so far. Till now, MBBS graduates used to file an affidavit before KMC stating they would return and work for one year in government-specified hospital, and were given KMC registration to work as doctors.
From this year, fresh MBBS graduates are not being issued KMC registration certificate. “The matter is before the government. MBBS graduates will have to complete the one-year government training service before seeking the registration,” said Dr H Veerabhadrappa, president, KMC.
DME Dr PG Girish said there is no clarity whether the rural service is applicable to students who have studied under private-quota seats in private colleges and deemed-tobe varsities. “We’ve asked private and government medical colleges to send the list of graduating MBBS students. We will share data with the health department, which will issue appointment letters via counselling,” he said.
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