Essentiality Certificate withdrawn from a medical college in Lucknow

News Desk

LUCKNOW: MBBS admissions at the GCRG Institute of Medical Sciences run by the GCRG Memorial Trust will have to be put on hold for now, as the Uttar Pradesh government has withdrawn the essentiality certificate that was issued in September 2013 to the GCRG Memorial Trust.

The certificate which can be understood as a permission/recommendation given by any state government to an organization willing to start a medical college and it (the certificate) acts as a strong basis to get permission from the medical council of India for starting MBBS course. In the certificate the state government assures the MCI that the organization runs a hospital, and opening a college at the said location is feasible.

‘In the interest of the students and in public interest the state government decides to withdraw the essentiality certificate number 4767 / 71 – 2 -2013 – 107 / 2007,’ said the order from the office of principal secretary medical education Dr Rajneesh Dubey in a statement.

In the essentiality certificate issued in 2013, the state government had also stated that if the organization fails to create infrastructure as per the MCI norms and fresh admission are stopped by the central government, the state government shall take over the responsibility of the students already admitted in the college with the permission of the central government.

Hence the existing students will now be shifted out of GCRG and given admission in other medical colleges of the state. As per the order by the principal secretary medical education the certificate was withdrawn after a report of the committee headed by the DG medical education was filed and the report indicated shortcomings against the norms. The college had not taken any admissions since 2017. The last batch admitted here was in 2016, which means the last batch needs to be transferred to some other medical college for their remaining two years of studies and internship.

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Director general of medical education KK Gupta said “the existing students will be shifted to some other medical college.”