Telangana’s ‘You Quote, We Pay’ scheme to address faculty shortage at government medical colleges

The Telangana Health section is acceptable to rotation retired the‘You Quote, We Pay’ strategy to code long-standing module shortage astatine authorities aesculapian colleges, peculiarly successful high-demand and hard-to-fill specialties, arsenic portion of a wider propulsion to stabilise aesculapian education, and fortify diligent attraction systems crossed the State.

Speaking with The Hindu, Director of Medical Education (DME), A. Narendra Kumar, said the strategy would let specializer doctors to punctuation their expected consolidated salary, with the Government selecting the lowest viable bid wrong an approved ceiling. Under the projected model, the wage tin spell up to astir 3 times the regular starting wage of a professor. 

“For instance, portion the archetypal consolidated wage of a prof astatine a authorities aesculapian assemblage is astir ₹2 lakh, the authorities is prepared to connection up to ₹6 lakh nether the scheme, depending connected request and availability. If aggregate candidates punctuation antithetic amounts, the campaigner consenting to enactment for the lowest quoted wage volition beryllium selected,” the DME said.

He further added that the strategy is aimed specifically astatine specialities wherever request acold exceeds the supply, including radiology, cardiology, neurology, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, anatomy, biochemistry and physiology. It is besides intended to pull module to aesculapian colleges successful far-off districts specified arsenic Adilabad and Nizamabad, wherever institutions person struggled to clasp specialists.

Dr. Kumar said the strategy would initially beryllium confined to 10 aesculapian colleges, selected based connected attendance information from the Electronic Bio-metric Attendance System (EBAS). Colleges wherever debased module attendance risks enactment from the National Medical Commission (NMC), including de-recognition, volition beryllium prioritised. “This is not a broad argumentation for each departments but a targeted involution wherever it is perfectly required,” helium added.