Even after the notification was issued six years ago, PG studies have not started in Patna Dental College. That too when a professor has been appointed for this. Due to this, the students here are forced to migrate to other states for higher education. Due to this, the state is lagging behind in the field of higher education in dentistry. Government-private dental colleges of other states are getting the benefit of the absence of PG studies in the oldest dental college hospital of the state.
The government had issued a notification in 2018 to start PG studies in Patna Dental College. Under this, approval was given for the creation of 25 new academic and non-academic posts. This proposal was also approved by the Cabinet and the Finance Department. After the announcement, the outbreak of Corona came. After that, some professors were also appointed in 2022 to teach in PG. Even after two years of appointment, PG studies could not start.
There are a total of 44 seats for admission in BDS (undergraduate) in Patna Dental College. After this, PG studies are approved for only two posts in one subject. One of them is reserved for central quota. A professor working there said that if PG studies had started, the meritorious students of the state would not have gone out. Other poor children would also have got the opportunity to receive higher education at very low fees.
If there were studies, the standard of the college would increase, Principal
Principal of Patna Dental College, Dr. Tanoj Kumar said that Patna Dental College is one of the five oldest dental colleges in the country. PG studies in all nine subjects have been going on for years in the dental colleges of Delhi and Lucknow which were opened along with it. Professors have also been appointed here. The government should have started PG studies. Earlier, admissions were made in two subjects here. But in 2001, PG studies in clinical pathology were stopped. Admissions are made on two seats in one subject, prosthodontics, but not in the other eight subjects.