ISLAMABAD: Maiden meeting of the newly-constituted Senior Parliamentarians Council (SPC) will be held on March 22 to take up the incident of the opposition members’ manhandling by activists of the ruling party outside the Parliament House on March 6.
“National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser has convened the maiden meeting of the SPC in Parliament House on March 22. The meeting of the council will be held under the convenership of Minister for National Food Security and Research Syed Fakhar Imam to consider the incident of misbehaviour with members of the National Assembly in front of Parliament House on March 6,” says an official announcement by the National Assembly Secretariat here on Tuesday.
NA committee rejects MDCAT results
PMC officials say re-taking exams are a waste of the academic year
ISLAMABAD:
The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on National Health rejected the results of the MDCAT examinations by the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC). The committee held the view that the formation was wrong, commenting that it had become a powerful institution.
The members of the committee headed by the chairman will visit PMC on Friday (today) to clear the ambiguity in the MDCAT results, a spokesperson shared on Thursday.
The panel asked the students to visit the commission as well and get their papers re-checked. It further instructed PMC to arrange an official as well as two other related people having experience in checking MDCAT papers.
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary committee on Thursday directed the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) to reduce the passing marks in medial and dental colleges’ admission test (MDCAT) from 60pc to 50pc.
The National Assembly Standing Committee on National Health Services met with MNA Khalid Hussain Magsi in the chair on Thursday.
It was decided that the committee members will visit the PMC on Friday (today) for manual rechecking of the papers of students who have lodged complainants.
The ministry briefed the meeting about budgetary proposals relating to the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the financial year 2021-22. It proposed Rs145.5 billion allocations for ongoing and new projects.