IGMC’s PG seats raised,more courses from next session

The Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) — the state’s premier medical education centre — will have more postgraduate (PG) courses from the upcoming academic session.

The college has already received Medical Council of India (MCI) nod for increasing its PG seats from 39 to 62 and now more courses will be started from the upcoming session. State’s Health Minister Dr Rajeev Bindal,who intervened in the State Assembly today,during a debate on the Governor’s address,rejected the Opposition charge that the neurosurgery and neurology departments at Dr Rajindera Prashad Medical College ,Tanda,were closed down. He,instead,informed the House that only yesterday the government received information about addition of eight more PG seats to raise the total number of seats to 70. This happens to be a big achievement to raise the standards of medical education in the state,said the minister.

These seats include radiography (two),community medicines (one),pathology (two),ortho (one),anatomy (one) and microbiology (one).

Even at Tanda,a medical college opened before the 1998 Assembly elections,the government had managed to build up an institution where five postgraduate seats have been sanctioned from the academic session beginning in the few months time.