Recognition of  Shaheed Nirmal Mahato Medical College and hospital (SNMMCH) appears to be at stake owing to shortage of teachers, especially  professors here.

 Principal  Dr. Jyoti Ranjan while admitting this  said  that we have a huge shortage of professors here. Out of a total of 33 sanctioned  posts of professors in this  medical college  only 8 professors are working and the remaining 25 posts are vacant for a long time . He admitted  that they  face difficulties in imparting quality medical education  to students here  owing to the absence of professors despite attempts of special  special care  taken to ensure that studies are not affected due to the absence of professors.

It's worth mentioning that the National Medical Commission ( NMC)  increased MBBS seats from 50 to 100 after a lot of efforts and has  allowed   PG teaching in two departments but shortage of professors  has come up as a hindrance in this. The  NMC has approved 6 seats in medicine and 3 seats in orthopedics. 

Teachers here said If we continue to struggle with  shortage of professors, then in a year or two NMC can withdraw  PG seats  and also put curb on UG seats.at present  out of the total 100 seats, 83 are in  state quota while 15 seats are from the all India quota, while there are two seats for central nominees.

Regarding the shortage of professors, teachers here said  as the promotion process is stalled here in Jharkhand  it's not only this but  all the medical colleges of the entire state are suffering. If the situation fails to improve it's likely that this medical college may face recognition or seat cuts.