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NMC told to make sure same stipend for interns in govt, pvt med colleges
The New Indian Express Hyderabad
|November 08, 2025
THE Health Ministry has directed the National Medical Commission (NMC) to examine a key provision of internship regulations to ensure that all undergraduate medical internswhether studying in government or private medical colleges-receive the same stipend.
The directive comes three years after the NMC introduced the Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship (CRMI) Regulations, 2021, which states that "all interns shall be paid stipend as fixed by the appropriate authority applicable to the institution/University or State." The clause, however, contradicts the Post-Graduate Medical Education Regulations (PGMER), 2023, which clearly mandates equal stipends for all interns, regardless of the type of institution.
This story is from the November 08, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Hyderabad.
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