A highly-placed source at IoM said a majority of faculty heads are against granting new affiliations to medical colleges in the pipeline.
The IoM had called a meeting of its faculty heads to take a final decision on whether or not to grant new affiliations following intense pressure from Prime Minister Sushil Koriala, Education Minister Chitralekha Yadav and TU office bearers.
Officials at the IoM said the TU office bearers have pressed IoM to approve monitoring report of medical colleges through the faculty board. The TU has prepared monitoring report of the Manamohan Medical College, Kathmandu National Medical
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College, People's College of Medical Sciences and Nepal Police Medical College some 17 months ago. The TU then had formed a team bypassing IoM while monitoring four medical colleges currently in the pipeline.
Decision of faculty board has come as a major blow to medical colleges.
Dr Govinda KC, a professor at IoM, has warned of fresh hunger strike if the IoM provides affiliations to new medical colleges. He had given 10-day ultimatum to the government to fulfill past accords. The ultimatum is expiring on Sunday.
