HC asks govt to explain BCME eligibility clause for professor post

Bhopal/Jabalpur: The MP high court has issued notices to the director of medical education and the health department's selection committee in response to a petition challenging the requirement of completing the Basic Course in Medical Education (BCME) for applicants to the post of professor.
Senior counsel Aditya Sanghi appearing for the petitioner, Dr Ashish Singh from Satna, questioned the logic of having BCME as a compulsory criteria for eligibility for the post of professor and said it's only a workshop in which a participant is not even given a certificate of 'pass' or 'fail'.
Dr Ashish Singh in his petition said that he had applied for the post of professor at Maharana Pratap College of Dentistry at Gwalior. He has worked on the post of assistant professor, associate professor and professor in different colleges between 2006 to 2024.
In the advertisement announcing vacancy on the post of professor at Gwalior college, BCME and Basic Course in Biomedical Research (BCBR) courses were a must for eligibility for the post. He has done BCBR but not BCME. Counsel for the petitioner, Aditya Sanghi, contended that BCME is a workshop and the participants get no certificate of 'fail' or 'pass' and said how a candidate applying for the post of professor can be declared ineligible for the post because he has done the BCME course.
Following initial arguments, the court of Justice Vishal Mishra issued notices to respondents seeking a response.