Council’s team at RIMS on June 2
Imphal, Jun 1: The Regional
Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal, will soon have its own and
the state’s first dental college with the Dental Council of India
“preparing” to give the green signal after inspection of the existing
infrastructure and facilities.
“An inspection team of the dental council
will be arriving here on June 2 to see the facilities for setting up of
the dental college. We are hoping to get the final approval for the
college after the inspection team submits its report to the council,” a
senior official of the institute told this correspondent.
A team of the council inspected the
infrastructure earlier and they were “satisfied” with the facilities and
a final decision of the council is expected after the second
inspection.
The institute already has a nursing
college and with the setting up of the dental college the institute
could become a deemed university.
“We have adequate infrastructure,
manpower, wards and equipment. We have a temporary building for the
college. We have kept land for the college separately and drawing of the
building is ready. Once approval comes we will start constructing a new
building for the dental college,” the official said.
The intake capacity is 50. The first batch
of students is likely to be admitted for the 2012 session. All
northeastern states (barring Assam), Sikkim and the rest of the states
will share seats.
The opening of the dental college will be
yet another feather in RIMS’s cap. The institute has been rendering
public service for the past 40 years. “As in the case of the nursing
students the dental college will be of big help to students of the
Northeast. Being the host state, Manipur gets 20 seats in the College of
Nursing,” the official said.
Sources said by the same yardstick Manipur would get a good number of seats in the dental college also.
T. Nabachandra, who is now in-charge of
the dental college project, is leaving no stone unturned to open the
college as soon as possible. There is also a dental college development
committee. N. Damayanti, head of the anatomy department, who has been
the moving force behind the College of Nursing, is closely associated
with the spadework of the dental college.
S.Sekharjit, director of RIMS, is extending all possible assistance.
