Decay in Dental council

Dr Kohli was not available for comments despite repeated attempts.

Around 45 new colleges, 95% of which were private, had applied to the Dental Council of India (DCI) recently, seeking permission to start new admissions. But the applications of all of them were rejected on grounds that they did not have enough faculty or enough clinical matter to teach students on. On the other hand, the registrations of nearly 42 dental colleges, which are already running for the past few years, have also not been renewed.
The Union health ministry has now set up a four-member technical committeeu00a0-- director general of health services Dr R K Srivastava, Dr Naseem Shah and Dr O P Kharbanda from the department of dentistry at AIIMS and Dr Ashok Autreja from PGI Chandigarhu00a0-- which will see whether these colleges really lacked infrastructure and faculty.

After Medical Council of India (MCI) President Ketan Desai was arrested on corruption charges, President Pratibha Patil signed an ordinance on May 15 dissolving the statutory regulatory body and replacing it with a seven-member committee.
The government decided to bring the ordinance after a crisis hit the regulatory body when its president was arrested April 22 by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 2 crore to recognise a medical college in Punjab though it did not meet MCI standards.
The MCI, a statutory body tasked to oversee the standards of medical education in India, grants recognition to medical degrees, gives accreditation to medical colleges, registers medical practitioners and monitors medical practice in the country.