MCI has been dissolved by an ordinace and 07 Board of Governors comprising reputed academicians are running it but being busy and as MCI Elections in different states also stopped by health Ministry which is now in search of selecting few best senior faculty members from different Government Medical Colleges to assist these BOG members to do all MCI work including inspection of new and old Medical colleges for under graduate, post graduate  and super speciality courses as per senior excutive of Health Ministry. 

           “To maintain complete transparency, there will be a corpus of experienced faculty that will help not only in assessing the applications from colleges but also with day-to-day technical operations to replace the now defunct undergraduate and post graduate committees,” said a senior health ministry official, requesting anonymity as the person is not authorized to speak to media.“The ministry will provide technical assistance to the BoG, at least to begin with, as we have the required expertise. The cadre that we are trying to create will be senior faculty with good track record in terms of honesty and integrity.”

             To ensure transparency, the ministry plans to have a roster system in place.Creating a separate and independent corpus for college assessment aims at ensuring complete transparency, in the wake of controversies about a strong nexus between the MCI and private medical colleges over issue of licences. Amid corruption charges, the government dissolved the MCI last month.Apart from helping with college assessment, the expert faculty will also help the BoG with its routine functioning. Health ministry officials are making calls to deans of government medical colleges across the country to shortlist at least a couple of senior faculty members, who are well-versed with the functioning of the medical regulator.

       “The roster will be a secret till the last minute, so that no one is aware who will sit for which college’s assessment. This way, medical colleges will not be able to directly approach committee members, and chances of corrupt practices will go down sharply,” the official said.The committee members will make recommendations to the BoG that is the ultimate deciding authority on anything related to medical education in the country. 

                  “We are open to receiving suggestions from experts, and these committees can be chaired by members of the board. It is not a bad idea as there have been advisory committees earlier also. We will soon plan the structure and number of committees,” said Dr VK Paul, member, Niti Aayog, who heads the BoG.