Pvt medical colleges may be under HPU

Shimla, August 28

Health Minister Kaul Singh Thakur today introduced the HP Private Medical Educational Institutions (Regulation and of Admissions and fixation of Fee) Amendment Bill, 2015, seeking to vest exclusive powers to affiliate private medical education institutions with Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) in the Assembly today.

The Bill provides for insertion of a sub-clause in Section 3 of the Principal Act for regulation of admission in private medical institutions on the basis of merit obtained in Centralized Common Admission Test and also seeks to plug some loopholes and ambiguities in definitions of clauses (e) and (j) of section 2, which are being misused by the private medical educational institutions to introduce element of opaqueness and irregularities in the admission process.

The amendment will be applicable to all private medical institutions and seeking affiliation from the HPU will be made mandatory. The amendment provides for making admissions from the centralised examinations (AIPMT, NEET) conducted either by central agency (with CBSE) or by Himachal Pradesh University and to ensure that all institutions are regulated under the provisions of the Act. The other Bills include the the HP Fruit Nurseries Regulation and Registration Bill 2015 and the Himachal Pradesh Passengers and Goods Taxation (Amendment) Bill, 2015. — TNS