NMC asks medical colleges to submit details of stipend paid to UG, PG students by April 23

NEW DELHI: National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed health institutions and medical colleges in the country to submit the details of stipend being paid to interns and PG students by April 23. As per a NMC circular, medical colleges will have to submit stipend details paid to undergraduate interns, postgraduate (PG) resident, senior resident and PG student in super speciality courses in academic year 2023-24.

The college administration will have to email the details on the email ID, stipend23- 24@nmc.org.in. The NMC added that from the financial year 2024-25, the college and institutions will have to upload these details on the website of their respective websites. The administration will have to update these details on a monthly basis by the 5th day of every month. At the end of each financial year the complete statement will have to be submitted to NMC on the email ID, stipend24-25@nmc.org.in.

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SC order

The NMC has issued the directions on the basis of the Supreme Court order. Last year, the SC has also asked the NMC, the apex governing body for medical education in the country, to look into the allegation that 70% medical colleges are not paying the mandatory stipend to the MBBS interns.

Hearing a plea by medical interns, the bench of CJI DY Chandrachud, and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said, "What is the National Medical Commission doing? These young doctors are putting in 16-20 hours a day.... This is like bonded labour.” Private medical colleges, which take heavy donations or capitation fees while admitting students, are not paying the mandatory stipend to the MBBS interns and asked as to what the NMC is doing as the regulator,” the bench added.