Pvt med colleges liable to pay only stipend to in-service doctors: Court

Says they are not college staff, only those pursuing PG in govt colleges construed to be in service

- R SIVAKUMAR @ Chennai

The Madras High Court has ruled that self-financing private medical colleges are liable to pay only the stipend to the in-service government doctors who pursue post-graduation and super-specialty courses in medicine in such colleges and not the salary as paid to their peers in the government medical education institutions.

A division bench comprising justices R Subramanian and K Surender issued the ruling recently while partly allowing the writ appeal filed by Karpaga Vinayaga Medical College at Maduranthakam in Chengalpet, challenging a single judge's order that held that the self-financing colleges are liable to pay salary for the in-service doctors.