NBE has been without a board since Dr Srinath Reddy's tenure as its president ended in October, 2014.
A health ministry notification dated June 17, and published in the gazette on June 20, named 14 people to the new NBE governing board.
MCI is to going to be scrapped and overhauled as decided by the PM. In this context, several senior functionaries of the medical council finding a place on the NBE, which is set to assume a bigger role in post-graduate medical education.
Remember,"PG medical education is even more lucrative than MBBS. It is crucial that the NBE board be manned by people with impeccable credentials for integrity,"
Dr Abhijat Sheth, medical director of the 276-bedded Apollo hospital in Ahmedabad, has been nominated as board president.
of the remaining 13 other members, 10 are ex-officio members while the remaining four members are nominated for five years. Four members have already been nominated - two professors from AIIMS, and Dr Ajay Kumar and Dr Sheth.
present MCI president Dr Jayshree Mehta and Dr SB Siwach, chairperson of present MCI's postgraduate committee, were made ex-officio members. Another ex-officio member is Indian Medical Association president Dr SS Agarwal, who was national convenor of the BJP medical cell. Agarwal heads the Swasthya Kalyan Group. Dr Dibyendu Mazumdar, president of the Dental Council of India (DCI), is another ex-officio member.
IMA AP Wishing all the members a great grand success and pray that, transparent work culture with corruption free environment will prevail in the board.
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