Dr Babu had filed an RTI on December 12, 2024, seeking details of the stipend submitted by 115 government medical colleges and 83 private medical colleges based on the show cause notice issued by the NMC on November 28, 2024; action taken based on the notice and colleges reply; and file noting.In its reply on January 13, NMC said, “The matter has been transferred to legal section UGMEB, NMC, and as per available information, the matter is sub-judice.” The Undergraduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) determines standards of medical education at the undergraduate level.The NMC listed the names on its website of the institutions, which included Delhi’s Maulana Azad Medical College, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences, and Dr RML Hospital, only after the Supreme Court ordered them to submit the details of the stipends paid.Dr Babu, who also filed an RTI in 2023 on this matter, said, “In an RTI response in 2023, they refused to share the details of college managements, which took back the stipend paid to 1,228 PGs, invoking third-party information. To date, there is nothing in the public domain about any action taken against those colleges.”In a letter dated November 28, last year, NMC secretary Dr B Srinivas said the “defaulting medical colleges are directed to furnish the data relating payment of stipend during 2023-24 on the dedicated email ID stipend23-24@nmc.org.in immediately and within the next three days from the issue of this show cause notice.”
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