TCMC Re-registration & Sample letter

TCMC Re-registration & Sample letter

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Dear Members,

TCMC re-registration


As directed by the High Court the TCMC is out again demanding Rs. 500 for the high security registration certificate costing less than Rs. 6. Though the case number is shown, they have taken care not to mention QPMPA.

For details of the judgment visit – http://www.qpmpa.org/news-and-events/16-j-u-d-g-e-m-e-n-t-s/53-tcmc-re-registration-2010.html and – http://www.qpmpa.org/images/stories/qpmpa/journal/6_JMS_Feb_2010.pdf to see that shown in their Counter affidavit published in our Feb 2010 issue of the Journal.

It is said that they are acting as directed by the High Court. However, the High Court has not asked them to violate the TCMP Act 1953.

The NOTICE No. E. 2639/10/MC Date: 20-9-2010 by the TCMC is a clear violation of the Act and no-where in the Act, especially in the one quoted – Section 20 (3) & (4) it says that we pay Rs. 500 for updating the Register. See http://www.medicalcouncil.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8

Section 20 of the Act is on Duties of the Registrars. His main duty is to keep the Registers in order.

S. 20 (3) says that the Registrar shall keep the registers correct by timely removal of the names of those dead.

S. 20 (4) says that to keep the register updated, the Registrar may write by registered post to the registered practitioners to find out the details and if no reply in six months delete the name from the register. Para 9 of the Counter in page 21 of the QPMPA Journal cited will be interesting.

Should the RMPs be penalised for the irresponsible attitude of the Council all these years. As the first step we can exercise Section 21 (3) of the Act to correct the Council. Should we pay Rs. 500 for a certificate costing less than Rs. 6? The fees permitted for Registration is only Rs. 20 as per the Act. (Section 24.) Then why Rs. 500 for the topnotch certificate with photo. Nowadays everyone is having many photo ID cards and certificates. The cost hardly is less than Rs. 10.

The most irresponsible directive in the Instructions in the Application form is the demand for a self-addressed envelop (30x26 cms).

The Registrar is innocent and it is our colleagues who decided all these on 22.4.2010 to plunder more than 39,000 RMPs in Kerala. As the details of the Members is blank in the TCMC website, the majority of us do not know who these great ones are. They want to make the TC Medical Council rich and Rs. 500 from 40,000 RMPs will bring in around Rs. 2 crores (200 lakhs) for an investment of less than Rs. 3 lakhs for the certificates.

If they want to make the TCMC rich, they are free to sponsor something produced by Pepsi or others as done by the National IMA! Many of our colleagues still believe that IMA and IMC are the same!

Why should the TCMC issue a certificate the size of 30x26 cms? That can be as small as a PAN, or an ATM card. If a small one, the ID can be with the RMP always and will help him out at many places.

I have the following suggestions to update the Register of Modern Medicine Doctors by TCMC:-

1. Reduce the fees to Rs. 100/- for the new high security certificate. Accept Postal Orders, cheques or arrange online money transfer. Give the bank Account number of the TCMC and the fees can be transferred without much problem. Proof of fees transfer to be attached with the application for the great certificate.



Note: A photo ID Certificate cannot be a permanent one. It must be updated every 5 or 10 years as the countenance / physiognomy change with aging. Also note that there is nothing that is tamper-proof and this new certificate will not solve quackery as found out by our super brains in the Council.

2. No fees for Senior Citizens (those above 60 years).

3. The safety of the original registration certificate cannot be assured by the TC Medical Council. So demand only an attested copy and on getting the new certificate the RMPs can surrender the old one. No one will be accountable for the loss in transit.

4. No self-addressed envelope. The Council must have their printed envelopes.
My request to QPMPA Members:-

Kindly send the above suggestions to TCMC, the address given below.

THE TRAVANCORE–COCHIN COUNCIL OF MODERN MEDICINE,
COMBINED COUNCIL BUILDING, RED CROSS ROAD,
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM – 695035


If the TCMC is not to fall in line, we will first approach the Government and then the Hon'ble High Court with a request to remove all those concerned for violating the TCMP Act repeatedly that they are entrusted to enforce, under Section 22 of TCMP Act, 1953.

Note: The Email ID shown in "Contact" page of TCMC site will not work. So send your complaint by India Post.

Details in http://www.medicalcouncil.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8





Kishore Kumar