With the Medical Council of India (MCI) giving its green signal,  the uncertainty over the commencement of much awaited government medical colleges at Bidar and Raichur has come to an end. The opening of the two medical colleges in public sector has delighted the people of the two  districts which will have the benefits in the fields of medical treatment.
 Bidar Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS) and the Raichur Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) with an intake of 100 each are all set to start functioning from next month after the admission of students in the causal round of counselling by the CET Cell  beginning on July 25.
The two government medical colleges will herald a new era in professional education as it will  benefit the meritorious but poor students, particularly girl students who can’t afford to stay at far off places to pursue their studies.  While, Bidar is getting its first ever medical college and for Raichur it is the second one.
The seats of the two new  colleges couldn’t be added to the matrix as they did not have permission from  MCI to start from the current academic year. After a series of inspection by the MCI and the efforts made by the state government, the dilly dallying over the two colleges has been put to an end.
Despite the shortage of teaching staff particularly in anatomy and physiology, the government has  succeeded in recruiting teachers as it almost doubled the payment of assistant professors and professors. One of the advantages for the Government to get early clearance from  MCI and the union government for its new medical colleges is the well equipped general hospitals at all district head quarters.  They would easily take care of the clinical needs of medicos. What is needed is some upgradation of  existing facilities and infrastructure. Bidar is equipped with 400 bed general hospital, while Raichur has got 300 bed general hospital.  This is enough to start with and steps have already been taken by the Government to upgrade them into 500 bed hospitals to meet MCI requirements.
The RIMS has got  an  advantage in the  form of super speciality OPEC hospital constructed by  Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and currently running jointly by the state government and  Apollo Hospitals.  The realisation of government medical college at Bidar is attributed to people’s movement with  Dharam Singh led government readily responding to it. The construction of the college building had to  face  hurdles with the deputy commissioner Manish Moudgil going lock stock  to demolish all encroachments on the government land. And finally it was smiles on all faces which will last forever.