Our Correspondent Kohima, June 9 (EMN): Principal Secretary to the government of Nagaland, Amardeep Singh Bhatia, on Thursday stated that the Nagaland Medical College in Kohima will be functional from the next academic session. He maintained the government has been putting in a lot of effort and the roadmap has been laid down, and they were hopeful to move an application to the National Medical Commission (NMC) by July. He asserted that the NMC would give the necessary permissions. The principal secretary was speaking during a review programme of the Social Health Responsibility campaign, an initiative of Chief Medical Office, Kohima at the Conference Hall of Hotel De Oriental in Kohima. The campaign was held in collaboration with district administration and Association of Municipal Wards Panchayat (AKMWP) and funded by National Urban Health Mission. Bhatia said 60 posts of senior faculty have been created and the process for recruiting has been initiated, while others will soon be created. He exuded hope that there should not be a lack of efforts from the government-level to start the admission from the next academic session. Meanwhile, he also expressed optimism that the insurance scheme, announced by the chief minister in his budget speech...