State won’t follow MCI on teachers’ retirement age

The MCI had recently explained to the Central government that the increase in the retirement age of government medical professionals would help in producing more MBBS doctors and prevent private medical colleges from poaching on experienced and talented teachers.

Kishore agreed that increasing the retirement age would ease the availability related problems and teachers would retire late even as promotions would not come their way.

The MCI has also suggested conducting distance education programme in which experts of one place would be engaged with medical institutes to deliver lectures. Thus even without being a full-time teacher,the experts can impart knowledge. This may enable a state to shuffle teaching staff during MCI inspections,which would do away the need to enhance retirement age.

Experts in the teaching field,meanwhile,said that the decision not to hike retirement age in government medical colleges will mean that teachers retiring at 62 would join private institutes on contractual basis while government colleges will continue to face staff shortage.