An eight-member delegation of the Dental Council of India (DCI) on Monday inspected the Government Dental College in the city to check the infrastructure and other parameters required to run courses.
The team arrived at the college in the morning and took account of equipments, infrastructure and faculty in the college and carried out inspection for almost two hours. According to sources, the inspection of DCI was in the wake of recent permission to the college for increasing number of seats in the Master’s course of Dental Science. In April 2012, the Union Health and Family Welfare ministry has issued a letter of intent to the state’s only government dental college in the city to take admission in five more seats in the Master’s of Dental Science course. It had permitted the college to admit 10 students every year to study the course in different disciplines.
Dr Subhash Garg, principal, Government Dental College said, “A team has visited to inspect the facilities being provided and infrastructure of the college. We have made certain suggestions for upgradation of the college and have also requested the state government to purchase certain equipments worth Rs 2.66 crores.”
Earlier, in January also, an inspection team of the Dental Council of India had visited the college for taking account of resources available with the college after which Union government issued letter of intent to state’s medical education department to raise the seat limit from coming academic session.
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