Regulation for Existing Colleges
[ Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section(i)]
Central Council of Indian Medicine Notification New Delhi , the 6 th October, 2006
G.S.R. (E) In exercise of the powers conferred by section 36 of the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970 (48 of 1970), the Central Council of Indian Medicine, with the previous sanction of the Central Government, makes the following regulations, namely:-
1. Short Title and commencement -
(1)	These regulations may be called the Indian Medicine Central Council ( Permission to Existing Medical Colleges) Regulations, 2006.
(2)	They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions -
(1)	In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,-
	(a)	"Act" means the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970;
	(b)	"existing medical college" means a medical college established on or before the 7 th day of November, 2003;
	(c)	"section" means a section of the Act; and
	(d)	"Form" means a Form annexed to these regulations.
(2)	Words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Act shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act.
3. Permission to be obtained by an existing medical college -
Any person, having established a medical college or any medical college, having opened a new or higher course(s) of study or training or any medical college which had increased its admission capacity in any course of study or training, without obtaining the prior permission of the Central Government, shall submit to the Central Government an application in Form-1 for Ayurveda, Form-2 for Siddha and Form-3 for Unani System of Medicine not later than the 6 th day of November, 2006.
4. Authority to whom the applications are to be submitted.-
(1)	Applications under regulation 3 shall be submitted to the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH).
(2)	Applications which are incomplete shall not be accepted.
5. Eligibility for making an application.-
(1)	A person or an existing medical college shall be eligible for making an application under regulation 3 if-
	(a)	the medical college and its attached hospital are suitably located preferably in a single plot, but    which may consist of two plots reasonably close to each other on land which is owned by the    applicant or has been taken on lease for a period of at least thirty years;
	(b)	permission of the concerned State Government has been obtained at the time of establishment of the medical college and the permission continues;
	(c)	affiliation from a University established under any Central or State Act has been obtained at   the  time of establishment of the medical college and the affiliation continues;
	(d)	the applicant owns and manages a fully functional hospital in the system of Indian Medicine concerned with a minimum of one hundred beds for under-graduate courses and one hundred  and fifty beds for post-graduate courses which conforms to the norms relating to minimum     bed strength and bed occupancy for In-patients and to the number of Out-patients;
	(e)	the medical college has appointed at least eighty percent of the teaching and non-teaching  staff as may be specified by the Central Council and these staff are in position on a regular basis;
	(f)	the college undertakes to reduce the deficiency of teaching and non-teaching staff within a period of two years in two equal steps; and
	(g)	subject to the exceptions made in this regulation, the college conforms to the other minimum standards of education as may be specified by the Central Council.
6. Fee to be submitted along with application -
The application to be submitted under regulation 3 shall be accompanied by a fee of Rupees one lakh in the form of a demand draft/pay order payable to the "Central Council of Indian Medicine" New Delhi .
7. Recommendation of the Central Council -
On receipt of the application from the Central Government, the Central Council shall examine it suitably and conduct an inspection of the medical college to verify whether the provisions of the Act and the relevant regulations and rules made thereunder have been fulfilled and then submit its recommendations to the Central Government in Form-4 with the approval of the Executive Committee.
8. Issue of Letter of Permission -
(1)	The Central Government may, after considering the recommendations of the Central Council and on being satisfied that the application is in order, issue a letter of permission to the medical college, subject to such conditions as may be necessary relating to the recruitment of additional teaching or non-teaching staff, the creation of infrastructure and facilities and any other matter that may be relevant including the time schedule for the fulfilment of these conditions.
(2)	Directions to remove the deficiencies in the letter of permission relating to any matter on which norms or standards have been prescribed by the Central Council shall be complied with by the applicant within the time period specified in the letter of permission and the Central Council shall carry out an inspection to ensure that such directions are properly complied with.
(3)	A letter of permission directing the rectification of deficiencies shall be valid only upto the expiry of the period specified for the rectification of deficiencies and the permission shall be deemed to have lapsed if after inspection and verification it is seen that the rectification of deficiencies has not taken place.
(4)	Inspections for the purpose of sub-regulation (2) shall be conducted sue motto by the Central Council during the last quarters of the twelve month period of the academic years concerned and the reports shall be submitted to the Central Government.
9. Failure to rectify deficiencies.-
The provisions of section 13B will apply to medical colleges which fail to rectify the deficiencies specified within the time schedule laid down in the letter of permission.
10. Application for recognition of medical qualifications under section 14 -
All medical colleges which have been granted permission under section 13C shall seek recognition of the medical qualifications granted by them at the appropriate time in terms of the provisions of section 14 of the Act.
11. Time schedule.-
The time schedule for the processing of cases will be notified by the Central Government.
File No. 28-13/2006 Ay.(1)
P.R. SHARMA
Registrar-cum-Secretary
Central Council of Indian Medicine