Council of State Debates Thursday 21st September 1933 Official Report

THE HONOURABLE RAI BAlTADUR LALA MATHURA PRASAD MEHROTRA.: The Honourable the Leader of the House has given us the history of the origin of this Bill from the Government point of view. [...] Now Sir as regards the first version that the Bill has come up at the instance of and with the approval of the General Medical Council of Great Britain I think it is also correct and in support of this I will quote from a letter of the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India which has fortunately found place among the collection of opinions supplied to MembersINDIAN MEDICAL COU [...] The first is the keeping of an All-India Register ; the second is about the election and constitution of the AlIndia Medical Council ; and the third is the question of reciproCity. [...] Sir they have admitted that it is bound to improve the tone of the medical profession in the country that it is calculated to improve the status of the medical degrees of Indian universities that it is intended to help the medical degrees of the Indian universities to be recognised by Great Britain and other universities abroad. [...] Sir I next come to the second point of opposition to the original Bill and that was about the nomination of the President of the Indian Medical Council by the Government for all time to come.