In a significant development, YSRCP parliamentary party chief Vijay Sai Reddy has written a four-page letter to the Chairman of the National Medical Commission (NMC) for derecognition of the medical college run by the Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM), deemed university, in Visakhapatnam.
Some parts of the building of GITAM were demolished on Saturday for alleged encroachment of more than 40 acres of government land.
Reddy wrote a letter to Dr. Suresh Chandra Sharma, NMC Chairman about the situation of the deemed University and seeking action under section 19 of the Indian Medical Council Act 1956.
He mentioned in the letter, “The GITAM Institute of Medical Sciences and Research was given permission to run Medical college on the basis of fake documents and also without a valid legal sale deed of land, free from all encumbrances. The question arises whether the erstwhile MCI has verified the genuineness of the land documents at the time of giving permission to start the institution. The fact is that the land originally shown to erstwhile MCI belongs to the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. The GIMSR is situated partly on the land owned by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Most of the buildings are constructed by encroaching into the land belonging to the Government of Andhra Pradesh.”
Vijay Sai Reddy said that as per the erstwhile MCl norms, no institution shall be granted recognition under the regulations of the MCI unless it has required land on the date of application and the land must be free from all encumbrances.
But, GITAM submitted false and fabricated certificates which are far from the truth.
He further reminded that MCI did not permit the GIMSR for making admissions into MBBS courses for the academic year 2017-18 having found that there is no adequate staff, laboratories and also the medical records produced were found to be false and fabricated and, subsequently, the MCI has restored permission to admit the students basing on the assurance given in respect of providing adequate staff, laboratories and to comply with other requirements but the management did not fulfil the assurances given and the irregularities and deficiencies remained unchanged.
Many of the teaching faculty continues to work on a part-time basis and many others were shown only on record to satisfy the norms. No norms and procedures were followed by the deemed university during the appointment of faculty members, he added further.