Govt to take over IRT medical college in Erode

  • | Friday | 14th December, 2018

In September 2017, chief minister K Palaniswami announced that the government will consider converting the college as a government medical college. Interest on the fund is used to meet the recurring expenditure of the medical college. CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government will take over the administration and management of IRT-Perundurai Medical College and Hospital in Erode from the 2019-2020 academic year as the transport corporations are unable to administrate the institution with dwindling funds. As per the original formula, employees of the state transport undertakings contribute an amount as interest-free loan and the fund is kept as fixed deposit. In 2017, the college got the Medical Council of India nod for admitting 100 students.“As the financial position of all the state transport undertakings is extremely weak, they are unable to contribute effectively to the expenditure of the IRT,” additional chief secretary Davidar said in the order.

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government will take over the administration and management of IRT-Perundurai Medical College and Hospital in Erode from the 2019-2020 academic year as the transport corporations are unable to administrate the institution with dwindling funds. With this, the health department will have one more college to its existing bouquet of 22 medical colleges.As per conditions described in the government order issued by the transport secretary PWC Davidar on October 24, of the 100 MBBS seats offered by the state, 30 seats will continue to be reserved for children of state transport undertakings, 15 seats will be given to the directorate general of health services for admission through all India quota and admissions for the remaining 55 seats will be made through single-window counselling for state quota. The annual fee for the course, however, will continue to remain 3.85lakh.“We will be recruiting doctors to fill up around 30 vacancies,” said director of medical education Dr A Edwin Joe.In 1986, the state government handed over 344.36 acres of land in Perundurai for to the Institute of Road Transport (IRT) for setting by the medical college. As per the original formula, employees of the state transport undertakings contribute an amount as interest-free loan and the fund is kept as fixed deposit. Interest on the fund is used to meet the recurring expenditure of the medical college. From 1,760, the fund has been enhanced to 5,000. In 2017, the college got the Medical Council of India nod for admitting 100 students.“As the financial position of all the state transport undertakings is extremely weak, they are unable to contribute effectively to the expenditure of the IRT,” additional chief secretary Davidar said in the order. In September 2017, chief minister K Palaniswami announced that the government will consider converting the college as a government medical college.

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