Will the principal of the Medinirai medical college in Daltonganj be replaced? Speculations are rife with regard to the change of the principal of the Medinirai medical college at Pokhraha Daltonganj in Palamu. 

It is because one associate professor Dr Dharmender Kumar of the department of eye here has been promoted to professor. 

A medical college has to have a professor as principal. 

With Dr Dharmender Kumar now a notified professor the exit of the present principal looks imminent. 

Dr Kamender Prasad is the principal here who is associate professor in the department of pathology. He is a stop gap arrangement. 

Dr Dharmender Kumar told this correspondent that "I am the most senior one in the Medinirai medical college here in Daltonganj. However the final call is to be taken by the government in regard to the principal of this college. I can't comment any more."

This medical college came into existence in 2019. It continues to have its bad bouts.  

First it was banned from taking admission to the first year courses in the session 2020 -21 by the National Medical Commission citing huge shortage of faculties here. 

Again this year 2024 the National Medical Commission took 12 lakhs of rupees as fine imposed on it by the Commission for multiple reasons like shortage of faculty, irregular aadhar based biometric attendance system, lack of cadavers to the anatomy department, expired licence of the blood bank etc. 

The medical college remains in the news for wrong reasons like erratic power supply, inadequacy of drinking water, no cafeteria, no auditorium etc.