National Medical Commission directs 70 colleges to comply with mandatory CCTV surveillance norms

New Delhi: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed 70 undergraduate and postgraduate medical colleges across the country to immediately comply with mandatory CCTV surveillance norms after they allegedly failed to connect their network video recorders (NVRs) with the commission despite repeated follow-ups.

In a public notice issued recently, the NMC said the institutions had allegedly not complied with regulations requiring medical colleges to install CCTV systems, set up NVRs and provide live feed access to the commission's Command and Control Centre.

"Despite continuous follow-up by the IT team of NMC, 70 Medical Colleges (UG and PG) have not yet connected their NVRs with NMC," the notice said.


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The commission said the requirement flows from the Undergraduate Medical Education Standards Regulations (UGMSR), 2023, the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) Regulations, 2023 and the amended Postgraduate Medical Education Standards Regulations (PGMSR), 2023.

Under the regulations, medical colleges are required to install 25 CCTV cameras at prescribed locations, install NVRs, provide live access to the commission and maintain playback of recordings for 30 days.

The NMC said its team had been continuously following up with institutions that had not complied with the guidelines but several colleges were yet to link their NVRs with the commission.

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The public notice asked all non-compliant institutions to implement the requirements without delay and advised those facing technical issues to seek assistance from the commission.

According to the list released by the commission, Rajasthan accounts for the highest number of defaulting institutions with 13 colleges, followed by Maharashtra with 11 and Delhi with eight.

The eight Delhi institutions named in the list are Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences and Dr RML Hospital, Central Health Education Bureau, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Basaidarapur, G B Pant Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Maulana Azad Medical College, Indian Railway Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, and the University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital.