Enforcement directorate quizzes Anil Kohli

ED probing foreign travels by DCI chief, family (PTI) 23 July

New Delhi, Jul 23 (PTI) Enforcement Directorate has launched a probe into the functioning of the Dental Council of India (DCI) and served notice to its chief Anil Kohli to furnish details about his foreign visits. Official sources said the Directorate had recently issued notice to Kohli, seeking information regarding his foreign travel and that of his family members. "The ED had asked for certain information, which we have already sent to them," Kohli told PTI and denied any wrong doing. ED had asked for copies of documents and details of foreign exchange obtained, foreign visits by his wife and daughters along with the photocopies of their passports and details of trusts and firms in which they have financial stakes. The probe is just at the preliminary stage at the moment and documents have been sought for to see is there are any violations of the Foreign Exchange Money Laundering Act. "All the allegations are motivated ones. Disgruntled colleges which were denied permission and certain other vested interests are spreading the stories," Kohli said and added he had already expressed his willingness to cooperate with any kind of probe. The ED probe on the DCI chief comes just three months after it investigated corruption charges levelled against Medical Council Of India (MCI) chief Ketan Desai. Desai was subsequently arrested by CBI in April along with two others.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "State of Dental faculty in India":

I know for a fact that part of the work of a dental faculty in three dental colleges is to make fake OP cards of fictitious and fill it with fake treatment.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "State of Dental faculty in India":

If dci wants to manage no of days and timings of each faculty then why don't they manage salary of faculty , when managements don't pay salary on time or they don't even give. Who is going to check them

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "State of Dental faculty in India":

What is the role of so called DCI...? What most of them anwer is all the members of the council are corrupted and they are giving grants for many colleges which donot have a minimum OPD of 10patients.. but the colleges are taking 50 to 100 UGs and 20 PGs per year...then where is the question of learning (IMPOSSIBLE)... please dont make education as a business and pls give recognition for colleges who meet the protocols.. my strong advice is to have an income tax raid on all the council members..


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are we just going to read mails and blogs or are we going to see any action

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Biometerics- Dental teachers or Criminals":

time for a dental staff association

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Biometerics- Dental teachers or Criminals":

What a pathetic Blog. You may delete this comment, after reading it.

I am not sure about the business behind a biometric machine, anyway that machine doesn't cost more than few thousands.. Also count the total dental colleges in country.

Thats not the main issue, are u aware of some pathetic dental colleges, where teaching is done by visitors only. .. which lack the required hospital & lab facilities ?? Anyway i am aware and i am student of one college like that .. pathetic institution ..

they plays drama , during each inspection , we see bulk of teachers whenever the inspectors come ..

This "rental" of faculties is a big business & big network is behind that... Teachers comes as groups and stay in some hotels & they acts like regular staff on the inspection day.. and just vanishes with the cash bundles ..

What about the students ??? they are not getting the required faculties and all... and the portions are covered at the end of year by some other visitors ..
The practicals & all just govinda .. Just understand the fact that, there are some colleges running like this ..

This is a very good step taken by the DCI . we appreciate that . Teachers may not like this, because they will not be able to get that extra money ..

But think about the future of students, they are the young blood, at least they have the right to get the minimum facilities for studying. many of them are studying paying lakhs & lakhs ..

Its one of the duty of the DCI " To remove the frauds from the field of dentistry and to maintain the equal dental education standards in the country"

Read the dentist act or text books ..

Of course teachers have the rights to work , wherever they wants, but they have know rights to destroy a students future, by getting that "extra money" these people are doing that..

I have seen very good teachers, this is not related to them. . but understand the fact that, there are frauds in the field.. working in the many colleges at same time ( in paper only) .

This is a very good step taken by DCI , and all the student community will support this.

If you are not a " so called fraud teacher", plz support this.

biometric machines are going to come in schools also.. and many of offices having it.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Biometerics- Dental teachers or Criminals":

The government institutions should also be included in the biometrics scanner. We all know that these institutions are grossly understaffed and most of the staff are hardly interested and are irregular.The govt institutions should also be made answerable. Why is the DCI arm twisting the private institutions only,IS IT BECAUSE THEY ARE EASY PREY.
The biometrics should be applied on ALL OR NONE.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

yes many professionals are cheating there ownself by doing visiting jobs....

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Biometerics- Dental teachers or Criminals":

SOME ONE PLEASE TELL ME DOES DCI HAS BIOMETRIC SCANNER?????????????
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

Looks like a lot of faculty bashing is happening.What about the managements who are on a money spinning trip? Why is nobody questioning their intentions? In the name of imparting education all one has done is resort to measures that have made a mess of a profession for which everybody is paying a price today.Everyone is equally responsible for the royal mess that has been created. About time situation is brought under control.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Biometerics- Dental teachers or Criminals":

Its high time the DCI stopped its mafia like running of dental education in the country. There is a nexus between managements of private dental colleges and the DCI authorities.Only those who are in the favoured circle, are let off the hook! If they really mean business,why not cleanse the entire system right through the length and breadth of this country, not just a few selected colleges. Even after the names of visiting faculty to colleges in the north are given to the DCI, no action is taken! These staff are just called to Delhi, where the high command asks them to justify their monthly visits! Why should biometrics be started in certain colleges, let it begin in all colleges at the same time.
It is absurd for the student community to complain because prior to their admission they can always verify the credibility of an institution in terms of infrastructure and teaching efficiency.After all its a matter of their education and money.
Is the DCI looking into the huge salary discrepancy across colleges for various designations. What has it done for the welfare of the teaching faculty? Do the students know that the salary paid to a BDS staff is a mere Rs.4000? What is the fate of the freshly passed MDS students after they pay and study so hard-they are willing to work in colleges for a sum of Rs.10000, which probably a driver is paid in any MNC.
in this liasion between college managements and DCI, the teaching staff are being harassed. The salary structure does not follow any regulatory norms, they are not relieved,no experience certificate is given and now they are asked for biometrics.
Well, its time that Mr. President pulls up his socks so as to ensure decent uniform pay-scales throught the country if he wants teachers to be total academians. There is no point in managements paying huge amounts and visits at Delhi to compensate for their deficiencies.
THE TIME HAS COME FOR A DENTAL TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION TO BE FORMED BECAUSE WITHOUT TEACHERS THERE CAN BE NO COLLEGE NOR STUDENT NOR COUNCIL.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Biometerics- Dental teachers or Criminals":

I do not understand why students are annoyed with teachers complaining about biometrics. Its only a matter of time for them to be on the teaching side! What surprises the teachers is that many of the colleges do not have a strict system in place to check attendance of students. But they have taken up biometrics of teaching faculty seriously!
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "State of Dental faculty in India":

why are the dental faculty being threatened by managements and DCI?
There is lot of underhand dealing between managements and DCI. Colleges are running a business in the name of education to society. Colleges collect huge sums of money from students & DCI collects its so called 'dues' from college managements, so where does that leave the faculty?
A BDS lecturer is paid Rs3000-4000A fresh MDS is offered 10000-20000 depending on the subject of specialisation. All this for a full time teaching job. Most managements do not pay PF,medical allowance, paid maternity leave etc. An employee of a BPO gets this kind of salary at a much younger age without having to spend 8 years minimum studying. A professor in a city like bangalore is underpaid when compared to his contemporary in the north. The guy who visits colleges in the north is paid double the salary and only for working for a week or less!
When the DCI is aware of all these differences, why have they encouraged and abetted these managements in their malpractice? Surely, there is a lot of money laundering. With biometrics, DCI and management stand to gain. What about the faculty? If the DCI cannot take care of faculty welfare,standard of teaching and learning is definitely going down.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "State of Dental faculty in India":

The value of dental education and dental faculty in India has fallen- thanks to the DCI! It has chosen to be blind and deaf to the pittance BDS graduates are paid. A college in Bangalore pays Rs.4000 to its BDS lectures and even asks them to do clerical work in the name of preparing for NAAC accredition.Fresh MDS graduates are paid Rs 10000 and are made to help in the admission process of its sister institutions! So are these managements really interested in the teaching? Is the council really bothered about dental education?
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Biometerics- Dental teachers or Criminals":

There was such a hullaballo about installing the biometric machines in colleges in the south.The irony is that the guy who came officially from the dci-DR. RAJ ARYA himself is a BDS graduate or should we say an agent/tout/pimp -making a living collecting commissions from managements and teaching staff for their placements as part time faculty in the north! This guy throws his weight around with the staff--his only merit is he is 'close' to 'boss'(the president)
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Biometerics- Dental teachers or Criminals":

As long as some of the faculty buckle down to these guys, the problem will continue. Its a pity to see some of the senior most teachers, principals standing on one leg at the airport waiting for the ever-delayed flights of the president.Even more shameful is the way some of the dci / ec members/ faculty jostle with each other just to get close to him!
Gosh! Are we talking about educated, white collar class 1 teachers or some desperate men? It gives an impression that the council is run by a don and his henchman. TIME FOR A DENTAL FACULTY ASSOCIATION. PLEASE START ONE AND I AM SURE THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF TEACHERS WAITING TO JOIN!
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

We hope that the HRD ministry and Mr. Kapil Sibal is listening. Please do away with such ineffecient councils which have allowed all kinds of things to go out of control and lower the value of dental education. They have shown no responsibility or accountability. We request and hope that once a new body is formed, it will comprise of experienced, honest and genuinely responsible persons with absolutely no personal agendas. Of most importance, the existing council members and officials SHOULD NOT be reinstated in these new bodies.Anyway they have already made their gains and should have no complains!
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ചള്ളിയാന്‍ has left a new comment on your post "Biometerics- Dental teachers or Criminals":

I second the above opinion of starting a faculty association. The management can not be given all the rights to determine the faculty.

I would also urge faculties to suggest a change in the curriculum. Some age old methods such as temporary removable partial dentures which are known to create secondary disease like cancers are still being taught as the mainstream treatment and students have no knowledge about the alternate treatment methods. An overhaul of the total system is on the cards.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Biometerics- Dental teachers or Criminals":

i honestly feel that biometric is just one more tool for harrassing the staff...similar to the notification passed last year by the dci, saying that professor in oral pathology was not required in undergraduate colleges..how ridiculous...no professor as head of dept, in a department that teaches two major subjects? shame shame.thare are better ways of monitoring private dental colleges.
i will definitely join an association of faculty members...lets form one.


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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "The tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the too...":

i would like to appreciate drusha mohandasss for having the courage to stand up for the truth....u have said what we have been trying to say all these years maam.....we r with u....

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Biometerics- Dental teachers or Criminals":

who is going to bell the cat?who is going to start the dental faculty association of india
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Dr (Capt) Prince Herbert has left a new comment on your post "The tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the too...":

if we had more outspoken people like Dr Usha Mohandass Dentistry wouldnt be in the mess it is in. certain colleges are charging 40 to 50 lakhs for an MDS seat but their op has less patients than a busy private practitioner. high time there was a common entrance exam for all BDS and MDS seats in the country... but who is listening?
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

lots of eyebrows on index journals publishing,brokers have started already to publish an article for 100000rs,its a shame.who has done this index any idea anyone......


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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

publications are only copied from foriegn journals,old wine in new bottle,nobody invents anything new,profs take help of pg students to publish articles,all bullshit...

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

profs above 50years should take self retirement & give chance to young blood to take charge like in cricket...wake up oldies...with old idea headed & retire gracefully rather than work till 70yrs
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

instead of paying 35lakhs for a PG seat,complete after 3 years,get a job for 20000pm,invest 30lakhs in reliance shares & open decent practice for 5 lakhs,listen to me dont bcom like a jerk professor in ur life...work under someone
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

anil kohli where have u hidden money......tussi great ho....tofha kabool karo....
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

I APPRECIATE KOHLI TO HAVE MADE 400CRORES....EVERYONE R JEALOUS OF U...I AM NOT....U HAVE DONE SOMETHING ALLDENTISTS IN INDIA TOGETHER CANT DO IN LIFETIME

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

ANIL KOHLI HOW MANY COLLEGES R U A SLEEPING PARTNER,PLS TELL IAM UR FAN.........
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

KOHLI PLS PUBLISH AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY IT WILL SELL MORE THAN ANY DENTAL TEXT BOOK I SWEAR....UR FAN..........OCTOPUS PAUL
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

OCTOPUS PAUL TELLS U ,UR TIME HAS COME LIKE LALIT MODI

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

OCTOPUS PAUL TELLS U TO GO ON A PILIGRIMAGE TO LASVEGAS
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Dental Council of India":

MAHESH VERMA B CAREFUL KOHLI HAS EATEN KHEER & MAY WIPE HIS HAND ON UR FACE.....OCTOPUS PAUL.

Medical/ Dental council of India- Powers Curtailed ?

Prof Education in India ?
The hard reality first: there’s an alarming lack of quality in India’s vast universe of educational institutions set up over the last decade. It’s no secret that the majority haven’t followed rules and qualifications. All this comes from the excessive corruption rampant in India’s multiple accreditation bodies, which are responsible for approving such educational institutions. Of the 13 existing councils, five are extremely corrupt. Of these, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the now-defunct Medical Council of India (MCI), the two highest bodies for accrediting engineering and medical colleges in India, are among the most corrupt organisations in the country. FULL ARTICLE IN OUTLOOK

Medical/ Dental council of India- Powers Curtailed ?

The revised draft of the proposed National Council of Human Resources in Health (NCHRH) Bill paves the way for substantially curtailing the powers of the Medical Council of India (MCI) leaving it to deal only with licensing, continuing education and ethics.

It is proposed to establish a National Committee for Accreditation (NCA) and a National Medical Education and Training Board that will register and accredit medical colleges and prepare the curriculum for all streams of education in the health sector respectively.

The existing councils, including medical, dental, nursing, pharmacy, Central Council of Indian Medicine and Central Council of Homoeopathy, are proposed to be re-established with the responsibilities of registering professionally qualified persons in their respective disciplines, maintaining State and National Registers of professionals and highest standards of professional conduct and ethics among professionals. MORE AT HINDU NEWS LINK

The tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth!

view point published in Hindu of 11 July- by Dr Usha Mohandas
Fresh dental graduates prefer joining call centres as staff! A majority lack the confidence to start private practice right after the completion of postgraduation attained by hardly attending classes! By all outward signs, the dental profession is prospering. However, signs of a looming crisis in dental education threaten the future effectiveness of the profession. Hope it is not moving into a phase of extinction from extraction!

The Dental Council of India (DCI) is a statutory body incorporated under an Act of Parliament: The Dentists Act, 1948 (XVI of 1948). Set up to regulate dental education, the DCI has failed to handle the challenges on many fronts.

The regulator claims authority but does not hold itself responsible or accountable for the debacle. It keeps complaining about mushrooming of colleges and shrinking of jobs; yet, it gives approval for more fresh colleges.

Does this mean that the regulator was ignorant of the level of saturation and the distribution of the 183 colleges in 2004? I quote the DCI president, who recently said: “There is no equal distribution of dental colleges. Take, for example, Australia with a two crore population. It has five dental schools. On the other hand, Kerala with a 2.5-crore population alone has 23 dental colleges, and still 6,000 posts of dentists in the Union Government are lying vacant.” Who accorded approval for these colleges knowing very well it was one too many? If any objection was made, how come it fell on deaf ears? Why has the proposal to start 100-plus institutions since 2004 been approved? Who is accountable, responsible and answerable for the lapses in oral health care delivery systems? MORE HERE

Biometerics- Dental teachers or Criminals

The Ethics of Biometrics being used by the Dental Council
by George Paul

India has traditionally fueled corruption through unreasonable licensing and regulation. This
was true of the manner in which buildings, tax or even business was controlled by the state
machinery. At a time when the license raj is being deconstructed to allow transparency and stem
corruption, it is ironic that the DCI is tightening its grip to squeeze the system. The introduction
of the biometric system to centrally monitor individual dental teachers is a classic example. It
envisages the central monitoring of 290 private dental colleges spread over the whole nation.
The mandate of the DCI is pretty clear. It has been entrusted with the job of overseeing education by reviewing and monitoring Dental institutions around the country.

Nothing in the Act gives the DCI the powers or moral responsibility to check on the daily attendance of every staff member attending to his duties thousands of miles away. We are talking about a handful of people checking out the attendance of more than 30,000 teaching staff and several hundreds of non teaching and auxiliary staff every day sitting in an office in New Delhi. There are other practical problems like verifying if a particular staff has not signed in because he is availing sick leave, casual leave or duty leave. Everybody from the DCI to the teachers knows that it will be impossible for all staff members to comply to a full time schedule as prescribed by the DCI (8 hours a day for 240 days). The managements who have invested crores of rupees starting institutions are certainly not going to shut down. The part time teachers masquerading as full time staff are not going to suddenly become full time staff and move their homes to new towns (even villages).

The biometric system is going to be the biggest gaffe for the simple reason that there will be even more deceit, dishonesty and cheating. So why is the DCI doing it? There may be many reasons and some of them may soon tumble out of the closet. The most obvious and dangerous one at present is the possibility that the DCI can use the data to target individuals and institutions that do not tow their line (and there are plenty of them). The favoured ones may of course have a free run. It is not difficult to predict this possibility as this kind of selective action is already being used to harass dissenting teachers and managements. The biometric system will only make the DCI a more efficient tormentor. Managements of institutions and teachers around the country must be aware of this.

Does this mean that Biometrics is not an effective tool?
NO! Biometrics is an useful tool for the employer who is paying the wages. The managements
and hospital authorities certainly can use biometrics if they wish to ensure that the employees are working for the stipulated time. It is a privilege of the employer.

Is it ethical for the DCI to use biometrics to monitor individuals?
Certainly not! First of all it is not the mandate of the DCI. More importantly there are ethical
issues involved in biometric scanning. The regulatory body can only impose their powers of
regulation on the institution through the principals. The DCI will now be seen to have a direct
access to teachers and plenty of scope for manipulation and even intimidation. In the absence of
a confidentiality clause and direct accountability the regulatory body has no business to play the
role of ‘big brother is watching’ on the individual teacher. At least not in a liberal democracy.

There are other issues. The biometric contract has been awarded to a company without
consulting with the EC or AGM regarding the identity of the bidders and tenders received from
them. Nobody knows the terms of contract and whether there is a confidentiality clause between
the parties executing the project and the DCI and also between the teachers and the DCI. In fact
biometric scanning cannot be taken up in the absence of a tripartite agreement between all these
parties- even assuming that it is correct for a regulatory body to directly monitor teachers in a
college. There are several other questions about biometrics. How will masses of biometric data
be stored? These are not fingerprint cards stored in a secured building; electronic data can be
easily moved and duplicated. How will this information be safeguarded? Who will have access
to this information? Will companies be allowed access to biometric data? Can anybody prevent
the custodian of this data from selling it to business or even passing it on to the government?
Are transparency, redress mechanisms and a right to anonymity safeguarded by policy-makers
and systems designers considering that biometrics such as fingerprints permanently memorialize identity?

What should the management and teachers do?
For a start the dental teachers must refuse to submit their finger prints like common criminals
to some stranger. The DCI has moved one step closer to direct intimidation of teachers. This
seems to be just another mechanism to subjugate teachers and managements. The solution to the problem of part time teaching is a very simple one- deregulation. Adjunct and part time teaching is an accepted norm around the world. The laws can be amended to allow this possibility so that teachers and managements will not have to resort to illegally giving affidavits as full time staff when in fact they are part time teachers. If policing must be employed, it must be done by an independent professional body like the CBI who will have no personal friends or enemies. In fact these bodies must first investigate the leaders and inspectors, all of whom are certainly not above board as evidenced by recent arrests in the MCI.

We hope the managements, teachers and all professionals raise their voice against this draconian
system that will put teachers and institutions in a vulnerable position. The only winners will be
the powerful leaders in the DCI who can control them- and of course the businessmen who deal
with these machines. It would be interesting to know who they are??