Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the bill which seeks to replace the apex medical education regulator, Medical council of India (MCI), with a new body is full of problematic provisions and suggested that the bill should be referred to the parliamentary standing committee.
He urged that waiting for another three four months cannot case any harm but will improve the bill sustainability.
In a letter to JP Nada he said "I still feel, you should refer the Bill to the Standing Committee and ask it to submit its report by the end of the 2018 Budget session. I humbly request you not to stand on prestige and do so."
"The Bill has been selective in its borrowing from the Standing Committee report. To say that it is based on the Standing Committee report and therefore needs no further examination by the Standing Committee is simply not true," he wrote.
In the letter Jairam expressed his anguish over the fact that bill will not be sent to the Standing Committee. The committee is headed by the Ram Gopal Yadav.
"On the grounds that the Standing Committee had submitted this report, the Government is taking the view that the Bill need not go back to the Standing Committee. This is a fallacious argument," Jairam Ramesh said in his letter to The Vice President.
"First, the Standing Committee never examined the Bill. Second, many of the provisions of the Bill go against the recommendations of the Standing Committee," he wrote.
"I am not saying that the Standing Committee is the repository of all wisdom. All I am saying is that it should be given an opportunity of examining a very important and far-reaching piece of legislation," Jairam Ramesh said in the letter.