MCI to forfeit Chintpurni college’s Rs10-cr guarantee

Balwant Garg

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, September 17

The Supreme Court has allowed the Medical Council of India (MCI) to encash the bank guarantee of Rs10 crore furnished by Chintpurni Medical College and Hospital, Pathankot, for its failure to meet the MCI norms and rectify deficiencies.

The Supreme Court had allowed the college to fill 150 MBBS seats in September 2014, after it gave an undertaking that there were no shortcomings in the college.

The college had also given an undertaking that Rs10 crore, which the college had deposited with the MCI, might be forfeited by way of penalty if it failed to meet the MCI norms.

Now when the High Court issued an order in Aakansha Mahajan and others versus the Union of India and others on September 8, allowing the shifting of all MBBS students of 2014 batch of Chintpurni college to other colleges due to lack of facilities, the MCI has the liberty to encash the bank guarantee, reads the Supreme Court order passed this week. The order has been received by Baba Farid University of Health Sciences here.

For lapses in infrastructure or faculty requirement in the college, the MCI and the Union Government had denied the renewal of permission for admission to this college in 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15.

But the permission was given on SC orders in September 2014.