Medical Education to be under NCHER and NCHRH

The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry on behalf of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has decided that medical education will be under the aegis of the National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) or the National Council for Human Resource in Health (NCHRH). According to the new formulation, both NCHER and NCHRH will operate separately.

Medical education will still be a part of the NCHRH and NCHER will be responsible for quality, content and curriculum of the education. This change has come into action after approvals from Kapil Sibal as well as Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. While there is still a need to fine tune the formulations, the association between NCHER and the NCHRH has been decided upon.

The formulations will be finalized on February 15 in a meeting between the NCHER and the NCHRH.