Object and Reasons For improving professional competence among medical practitioners, it is necessary to place a high standard of medical education, both post-graduate and under-graduate, before all medical colleges and other allied institutions in the country. Similarly, for the promotion of medical research it is necessary that the country should attain self-sufficiency in post-graduate medical education. These objectives are hardly capable of realisation unless facilities of a very high order for both undergraduate and post-graduate medical education and research are provided by a central authority in one place. The Bill seeks to achieve these ends by the establishment in New Delhi of an institution under the name of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences. The Institute will develop patterns of teaching in under-graduate and post-graduate medical education in all its branches so as to demonstrate a high standard of medical education to all medical colleges and other allied institutions, will provide facilities of a high order for training of personnel in all important branches of health activities and also for medical research in its various aspects. The Institute will have the power to grant medical degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions which would be recognised medical degrees for the purpose of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1933". - Gazette of India, 21-9-1955, Pt. II-Sec. 2, Extra page 444.

Act 30 of 1987. - The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh are statutory autonomous bodies wholly financed by the Government of India. Both the Institutes are expected to provide accommodation to their staff either within or outside the Institute complex. However, it has not been possible to achieve maximum possible satisfaction in the matter of allotment of quarters to the staff due to the over all financial constraints of the Government. It has, therefore, been decided to empower both the Institutes to borrow money, with the previous approval of the Central Government, on the security of the property of the Institutes. A clarificatory amendment has also been proposed to enable the construction of staff quarters and allot them in accordance with the regulation to be made by the Institutes.

2. The Bill seeks to achieve the above objects by amending the relevant provisions of the Acts establishing the Institutes. S.O.R. - Gazette of India, 11-3-1987, Pt. II, Section 2, Ext., p. 3 (No. 5).

Act 33 of 2000. - All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi is an autonomous body established by an Act of Parliament in 1956. Section 4 of the AIIMS Act governs the composition of the Institute Body of AIIMS. There is a provision under Section 4(g) of the Act for election of three Members of Parliament of whom two shall be elected from among themselves by the Members of the House of the People and one from among themselves by the Members of the Council of States. In accordance with section 6(1) of the Act, the term of office of a Member elected under clause (g) of section 4 shall come to an end as soon as he ceases to be a Member of the House from which he was elected. It has been decided that a provision should be made in the Act to the effect that consequent to a Member of Parliament becoming a Minister or Minister of State or Deputy Minister, or the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker of the House of the People, or the Deputy Chairman of the Council of States, his/her nomination/election to that body shall be deemed to have been terminated.

2. The Bill seeks to achieve the above object by amending the relevant provision of the Act. -Gazette of India 1-8-2000, Pt. II-S. 2, Ext. p. 6 (No. 34)

[2nd June, 1956]

An Act to provide for the establishment of All-India Institutes of Medical Sciences.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India, as follows:-