Date:12/07/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/12/stories/2007071251970400.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Transferred KIMS teachers will be shifted back: Acharya

Special Correspondent

BANGALORE: Medical Education Minister V.S. Acharya on Tuesday assured the Legislative Council that 20 lecturers who had been transferred from the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Hubli, to Hassan, Belgaum, Shimoga and Raichur Institutes of Medical Sciences because of staff shortage there, would be shifted back to KIMS by September 30.

Replying to a call attention notice tabled by Leader of the Opposition H.K. Patil, the Minister noted that the transfer of teaching staff from KIMS to other institutions was only a temporary arrangement to ensure that the four new medical colleges had enough staff at a time when the MCI was inspecting the facilities in these colleges.

Recruitment of teachers for the new colleges would be completed soon and the 20 lecturers would be shifted back to KIMS, he said. The Minister said that as per norms, the KIMS required only 270 teaching staff as its intake was 100 students. But the institute had 333 teaching staff. Hence, 20 of them had been transferred. He said that the MCI had given “in principle” clearance for admissions to the new medical colleges in Shimoga, Raichur and Bidar from this academic year.