Panel boss made crores while 45 new colleges waited for permission to start admission. Registration of 42 existing institutions yet to be renewed
Panel boss made crores while 45 new colleges waited for permission to start admission. Registration of 42 existing institutions yet to be renewed
It seems the Dental Council of India (DCI) is headed the Medical Council of India (MCI) way.
In a complaint to the Prime Minister and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, several MPs as well as many dental colleges have alleged that more than Rs five crore had been deposited in the account of DCI president Dr Anil Kohli in the last five years.
The accusation is that in the name of verification of the achievement of annual targets for renewal of Health Ministry permission of admission in BDS course, DCI demands Rs 25 lakh from each institute.
"Those colleges who agree with their demand get favourable recommendation from president of DCI, Dr Anil Kohli; otherwise an adverse report is submitted to the ministry. I have ample case studies and evidences against him," president of Bihar Minority Dental Colleges Association, SMZ Imam told MiD DAY.
"Dr Anil Kohli has amassed huge amount of unaccounted money as a senior functionary of DCI of which he held the post of Executive committee member from 2001 to 2004, and later as its president since October 2004," alleged an MP.u00a0
Sanjay Prasad, director, ministry of health and family welfare has constituted a two-member committee to inquire into various complaints against the DCI president.
"Investigation is going on. It is a fact-finding committee and we will submit the report to the health ministry. It is a generic problem and we are working on leads coming from various sources," he told MiD DAY.
MiD DAY has a copy of the account details of Dr Kohli and his family members.
"About Rs 5.68 crore had been deposited in the bank account of Dr Kohli between 2004 and 2009. In the same period his wife Sushma Kohli received about Rs 3.40 crore in her bank account. Even his elder daughter Mallika Kohli received more than Rs 1 crore and his younger daughter Sonali Kohli received Rs 60 lakh in the same tenure," said a source at DCI.
| The Other Side |
| Dr Kohli was not available for comments despite repeated attempts. |
"He can't be member of DCI from Delhi as Delhi is a union territory and not a state. This case is already in the Chennai High Court. The petitioner is Dr George Paul," said a DCI member on condition of anonymity.
"At the time of elections for DCI president he was a member from Delhi state, central government and Baba Farid University, which is illegal," he added.
Rs 5 crore Money deposited in Dr Anil Kohli's account in the last five years
290 Number of dental colleges in India
| ROT RUNS DEEP |
| 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. |
| ILLS OF MCI |
| 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. |
