New med college buildings must be within norms: HC

New med college buildings must be within norms: HC

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:03.04.2021

The state government must construct buildings for upcoming new medical colleges in the state strictly in accordance with the applicable norms of medical commission, Madras high court has said.

The first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy also said it would be open to the commission to depute its personnel to inspect the nature of the construction periodically, if the commission so desired.

The court passed the order on a public interest writ petition filed by N Rajasekaran to direct the state to construct medical colleges as per norms fixed by National Medical Commission (NMC). When the plea came up for hearing on Friday, special government pleader G K Muthhukumar said the petitioner relied on the erstwhile norms of 2010 fixed by the then Medical Council of India (MCI) pertaining to construction of medical colleges.

“The norms were changed in 2018 and the constructions undertaken in the state recently conform to the 2018 norms. In 2020, the norms were somewhat altered by MCI and every attempt is being made to adhere to the latest norms,” the pleader said.

Recording the submission, the bench said: “There is no doubt that the NMC will oversee the construction work and the final permission for the medical colleges to operate has to be issued by the commission upon being satisfied that the construction is in accordance with the norms .”