Following the issues of irregular fund allocation to the medical universities and its affiliated medical colleges, the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) has written to the central government to give them a separate Medical University Grants Commission. Currently, MUHS has to depend upon the state government as well as the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to get funds.
The University Grants Commission (UGC), which is a statutory organisation, has been charged with the coordination, determination and maintenance of the standards of university education, only gives recognition to medical institutes. For funds and financial help, medical universities have to rely on the central government as well as state government.
“MUHS is registered with UGC under section 2 (f), which defines that the UGC will only work as a recognition body for the medical institutions affiliated to MUHS. However if we have get funds from the UGC, we have to get registered with UGC under section 12 (B),” said Arun Jamkar, the vice chancellor, MUHS, Nashik.
He said that since MHUS is not registered with UGC as per section 12 (B), they are not supposed to get the financial aid from the UGC. Jamkar said they have to solely rely on the state government as well as the central government for the allocation of funds for development of the universities and the colleges affiliated to them.
He said that currently MUHS is getting funds from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for the research in the medical field and for the infrastructure and the development of the university, they have to rely on the state and central government.
“There are several medical universities in the country, however these universities are finding it difficult to get the sufficient funds and due to that the development of the universities and the colleges gets stalled,” said Jamkar.
In its request to the Central Health Ministry, Secretary Keshav Desiraju, MUHS has demanded that once the separate Medical University Grant Commission comes into force, Rs 100 crore funds should be made available for university to achieve the various objectives and after that Rs 20 Crore should be allocate to the medical colleges so that they can use them for the development of the infrastructure of the campus, equipments and other stuff.
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