Summary:
Introducing a Bill to this effect, Chief Minister K.
Chandrashekhar Rao said they have taken the decision to increase the retirement age of faculty members of medical and dental colleges after observing that several other States were implementing the same. The Chief Minister said the Medical Council of India had already made it clear that the teaching faculty could work up to attaining the age of 70 years. “Increasing the retirement age for the professors, associate professors or assistant professors, will not have any impact on recruitments as there was a huge demand for the medical faculty members. We will fill the vacant posts on a priority basis,” he assured and said the government was compelled to increase the retirement age due to a severe shortage of faculty members in various medical colleges. He also said the students were being forced to opt for medical colleges outside the State seeking quality education as the existing medical colleges in the State does not have sufficient faculty members leading to the closure of some medical colleges..