Dr Pratibha Narang, secretary of Kasturba Health Society which runs the college and former college dean, told TOI that the college had sent a special request to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, government of India, as well as MCI to exempt the college from the national CET. "But we have not got any response from either the ministry or the council yet. Since MCI has not issued the notification on the issue, we will wait for it and its nature before resorting to any other effort on our part. We would definitely prefer to continue with our own CET and also a special paper on Gandhian Thoughts which distinguishes us from all others," she said.
Dr Narang stated that on two other occasions when the state had proposed a state CET for private colleges in 1996 and once again in 2003 the full bench of Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court respectively had exempted the college due to extremely good track record of its working.
MGIMS, having just 65 seats, is unique in many senses and hence could have the liberty to be completely independent yet have support from both union and central government. The college has applied for an increase to 100 seats. Dr Narang said that though the college was government aided (50% grants from central and 25% from state, with society contributing the remaining 25%), the college had been admitting students only through its own CET. However, the college has a quota of six nominated seats, four from Centre and two from state, who don't have to appear for the CET.
MGIMS also happens to be different in two other aspects. Every student coming to MBBS course has to spend 15 days each at the beginning and at the end of the course in villages to understand the health requirements of rural people and treat the people. Also, every student opting for post graduation here has to serve the rural people with some NGOs for at least two years after the internship for being eligible for entrance to MD course.
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