Central Council of Homeopathy (CCH)

In exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (j) of section 33 of the Homoeopathy Central Council Act, 1973 (59 of 1973), and in supersession of the Homoeopathy (Minimum Standards of Education) Regulations, 1983, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Council of Homoeopathy, with the previous sanction of the Central Government, hereby makes the following regulations, namely:-

1.	Short title and commencement:
(1)	These regulations may be called the Homoeopathy Central Council (Minimum Standards Requirement of Homoeopathic Colleges and attached Hospitals) Regulations 2013.
(2)	They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2.	Definitions: In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:-
(a)	Act means the Homoeopathy Central Council Act, 1973 (59 of 1973);
(b)	attached hospital means a teaching Homoeopathic Hospital attached to the Homoeopathic College;
(c)	college means a medical college of Homoeopathy, whether known as such or by any other name, in which a person under goes a course of study and training including any Post Graduate Course of Study and training, which will qualify him for the award of a recognised medical qualification in Homoeopathy;
(d)	Courses means the courses of study in Homoeopathy, namely: (i) B.H.M.S. (Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery) (ii) M.D. (Hom.) [Doctor of Medicine (Homoeopathy)] in various specialties.
(e)	diploma means a Diploma in Homoeopathy as defined in clause (iii) of regulation 2 of the Homoeopathy (Diploma Course) Regulations, 1983;
(f)	degree means a Degree in Homoeopathy as defined in clause (iv) of regulation 2 of the Homoeopathy (Graded Degree Course) Regulations, 1983 or in clause (iv) of regulation 2 of the Homoeopathy (Degree Course) Regulations, 1983;
(g)	Post Graduation in Homoeopathy means a Post Graduate qualification in Homoeopathy recognized as per the provisions of the Act;
(h)	Teaching Experience means teaching experience in the subject concerned in a Homoeopathic College and includes teaching experience in the subject concerned in a Medical College permitted by the Central Government;
(i)	the words and expression used herein and not defined, but defined in the Act shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Act.

3	Fulfillment of minimum standard requirements.-
(1) The college and attached hospital(s) shall fulfill the minimum standards requirements of infrastructure and teaching and training facilities referred to in the regulations 4 to 13. (2) For exposure of the students in the clinical field and to understand the depth of operative surgery and operative Gynecology or Obstetrics as well as management in critical illnesses, a college shall have a Memorandum of Understanding with a reputed nearby located super-specialty hospital (of modern medicine) with all required facilities of operation theatre, labor room, Intensive Care Unit and other required facilities for the management of critical patients. (3) In case an attached hospital of a college does not have the facilities to handle operation theatre and other critical patients, the students of such a college can be deputed under the strict supervision of concerned teaching faculty of the college for the required exposure in the said field to the attached super specialty hospital. (4) The existing colleges and their attached hospitals established under section 12A of the Act and those colleges and their hospitals established prior to the 28th January, 2003 and recognized by the Central Council of Homoeopathy shall fulfill the minimum standards requirements of infrastructure teaching and training facilities referred to in these regulations by the 31st December, 2014 for consideration of grant of permission for undertaking admissions in the coming academic years. (5) If a college fulfills the requirement by 31st December, 2014 as per these regulations, it shall be granted permission to undertake admissions for a period not exceeding five years during which the college shall not be inspected, except for random checks on receipt of any complaint, or otherwise as deemed necessary either by the Central Government or by the Central Council of Homoeopathy. (6) The Central Council shall visit the college suo moto three months before the expiry of permission. (7) The conditional permission shall be granted only to those colleges which are fulfilling at least the requirement of teachers as specified in Schedule-IV, the requirement of functional hospital as specified at sub-regulation (2) of regulation 7 and availability of equipment as specified in schedule-III for each academic year 2013-14 and 2014-15 on the basis of the separate inspections to be carried out by the Central Council of Homoeopathy after the 15th May, 2013 for the academic year 2013-14 and after the 31st December, 2013 for the academic year 2014-15. (8) Such conditional permitted colleges or those colleges which have been denied permissions during the academic year 2013-14 and/or 2014-15, will be required to fulfill the requirements as specified in these regulations by the 31st December, 2014. (9) All the existing colleges, which are not able to achieve full compliance of the requirement as specified in these regulations by the 31st December, 2014, shall be denied permission from academic year 2015-16 onwards and action as envisaged under section 19 of the Act shall be initiated against all such colleges apart from rejection of their applications under sections 12A, which have been under consideration by way of conditional permissions or denials.
4	Requirement of land-
	The land required for establishment of a college including attached hospitals and adequate infrastructure shall be as prescribed in the Establishment of New Medical College (Opening of New or Higher Course of Study or Training and Increase of Admission Capacity by a Medical College) Regulations, 2011: Provided that the said land requirement is not applicable for the colleges established prior to notification of these regulations in the Official Gazette.
5	Requirement of minimum constructed area :-
	The college, attached hospital and other allied infrastructure shall have the constructed area as prescribed in Schedule- I. Provided that the said space requirement shall not be applicable for the colleges established prior to notification of these regulations in the Official Gazette.
6	Admission capacity:-
	The annual intake capacity in undergraduate course will be in the slabs of sixty and hundred. If any college has the intake capacity less than sixty or within sixty one to hundred seats, it has to comply the requirements for sixty or hundred seats respectively, as mentioned in the respective Schedule.
7	Requirements of teaching hospital:-
(1) The teaching hospital shall fulfill all the statutory requirements of the concerned State or Union territory or local authority to establish and run the hospital and shall submit the updated certified copies of such permission(s) or clearance(s) to the Central Government and the Central Council of Homoeopathy, and the concerned State Government or Union territory shall verify the availability of such permission(s) or clearance(s) before issuing the No Objection Certificate to such applicant college. (2) Requirement of beds, bed occupancy and Out-Patient Department attendance: The ratio of students with number of beds, bed occupancy and Out-Patient Department attendance shall be as given in the Table below for B.H.M.S. course: Minimum per day average number of patients in In- Patient Department during last one calendar year (365 days) - 30% Intake capacity per year - Up to 60 Students Minimum number of beds in In- Patient Department - 20 Minimum per day average number of patients in Out- Patient Department during last one calendar year(365 days) (1:2) - 120 Intake capacity per year - Up to 61-100 Students Minimum number of beds in In- Patient Department - 25 Minimum per day average number of patients in Out- Patient Department during last one calendar year(365 days) (1:2) - 200 Provided that for the Post Graduate courses, colleges have to fulfill the additional requirement of bed in view of the provisions of Homoeopathy (Post Graduate Degree Course) M.D. (Hom.) Regulations, 1989 (as amended from time to time). (3) Maintenance of Record of Out-Patient Department and In-Patient Department patients: The college and hospital shall maintain the computerised central registration system for maintaining the records of patients in Out-Patient Department and In-Patient Department, and shall also maintain the Department wise Out-Patient Department and In-Patient Department records, case papers of Out-Patient Department and In-Patient Department patients, laboratory and radiological investigation reports, medicines dispensing register, diet register for In-Patient Department patients, duty roster of hospital staff, birth and death certificates,etc. to substantiate the claim of genuine functional Homoeopathic teaching hospital fulfilling the norms as specified in the sub-regulation (4) Space requirement: The hospital shall be suitably spacious to accommodate Out-Patient Department and In-Patient Department in addition to reception, patients waiting area, dispensing room, dressing room, clinical laboratory, radiology section, medical record-room, operation theatre, labor room, store room, separate wards for male and female, duty rooms for doctors, nurses and other staff required for a functional hospital, and the specification of built-up area in the attached hospital shall be as per Schedule-I(A). Provided that the said space requirement is not applicable for the colleges established prior to notification of these regulations in the Official Gazette. (5) Outdoor Patient Department: The hospital shall have Out-Patient Department section as per Schedule-I(A). (6) In-Patient Department: The indoor patient department of the hospital shall have separate male and female wards, and distribution of beds shall be as under- General Medicine 50% (Acute 10% and Chronic 40%) Paediatrics 10%  Surgery 20% Obstetrics/Gynaecology 20% (7) There shall be a clinical laboratory in the hospital complex with proper infrastructure and manpower as specified in the respective Schedules for carrying out routine, pathological, biochemical and hematological investigation on the patients referred from out door and indoor department of the hospital. (8) Hospital staff: The minimum staff required for the attached hospital shall be as specified in Schedule-II and it shall be liable to be increased proportionately in accordance with the increase in required bed strength.
8.	Infrastructure requirements of college:-
	The minimum requirement of constructed floor area and essential facilities for various components of a college will be in proportionate with admission capacity as per Schedule-I(B). Provided that the said space requirement is not applicable for the colleges established prior to notification of these regulations in the Official Gazette.
9	Requirements of College:-
(1) Teaching Staff: There shall be minimum teaching faculty as per Schedule-IV for B.H.M.S. degree Course (including for conducting graded degree Course) and for Post Graduate degree course additional as per Schedule-V. (2) Teachers or consultants of modern medicine: Teachers or Consultants of modern medicine like Pathologist, Radiologist, Anaesthetist, Gynaecologist, Physician, Surgeon, Opthalmologist, Pediatrician, Dentist, etc. may be appointed on contract basis or part time or on call basis, and these teachers or consultants shall be in addition to the teaching faculty as prescribed in Schedule-IV. (3) Age of superannuation of teachers: The age of superannuation of teachers shall be as per the Central Government or State Government or University Grants Commission norms as applicable to that particular college, and the retired teachers fulfilling the eligibility norms of teachers can be re-employed upto the age of sixty five years as full time teacher. (4) Requirement of technical and other staff: The technical and other staff in various units and departments of the college shall be as per the details given in Schedule-VI.
10	Miscellaneous requirements:-
(1) College Council: Every medical College or Medical Institution shall have a College Council comprising of the Head of Departments as members and Principal or Director as Chairperson. (2) The Council shall meet at least four times in a year to draw up the details of curriculum and training programme, enforcement of discipline and other academic matters. (3) The Council shall also organise inter-departmental meetings like grand rounds, statistical meetings and clinical meetings including periodical research review in the institution regularly. (4) College website: Each and every college or institute shall have its own website containing the following details, which are to be updated in the first week of every month, namely:- (a) Details of Director or Principal and Medical Superintendent including their name, age, registration number, qualification, date of joining, complete address with telephone or mobile numbers and subscriber trunk dialing code, fax and E-mail, etc; (b) Details of teaching staff along with their photograph, registration number, date of birth, qualification, experience, Department etc; (c) Non-teaching staff of college and hospital staff along with their department; (d) Details of the sanctioned intake capacity of various courses, undergraduate, as well as, Post Graduate; (e) List of students admitted , merit-wise, category-wise (Under Graduate and Post Graduate) for the current and previous academic years; (f) Any research publications during last one year; (g) Details of any Continuous Medical Education programme, conferences and /or any academic acclivities conducted by the institution; (h) Details of any awards and achievement received by the students or faculty; (i) Details of the affiliated University and its Vice-Chancellor and Registrars; (j) Result of all the examinations of last one year; (k) Detailed status of recognition of all the courses; (l) Details of clinical material in the hospital. (5) Biometric Attendance: It is desirable to have biometric attendance supported with web camera based computerised attendance system for teaching, non-teaching college staff and hospital staff.
11	Phase wise specific requirement of new colleges:-
(1) (1) A medical college or institution seeking permission for starting Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery Course under the provisions of section 12A of the Act, shall have the requisite infrastructure, teaching staff, laboratory facility for the concerned subjects as specified in the Schedule-IB, Schedule-III, Schedule-IV, Schedule-V, and Schedule-VI at the time of inspection for granting permission. (2) The permission to establish a medical college and admit students may be granted initially for a period of one year and may be renewed on yearly basis subject to verification of fulfillment of year-wise requirements as mentioned under sub-regulation (1), and it shall be the responsibility of the college to apply to the Central Council of Homoeopathy for purpose of renewal six months prior to the expiry of the initial permission, which process will continue till such time the establishment of the medical college is completed for passing-out of the first batch.
12	Qualification of head of the institute or college, hospital and teaching departments and teachers:-
	The Director or Principal, Medical Superintendent, Professors, Readers and Lecturers of college and hospital shall have the qualification and experience prescribed in these regulations, and the qualification of teaching staff and hospital staff shall be as laid down in Schedule- VII:  Provided that the teaching experience in the concerned subject of persons appointed as regular teaching staff in the colleges, prior to notification of these amended regulations, fulfilling the prescribed requirements of Homoeopathy (Minimum Standards of Education) Regulations, 1983 shall be counted for appointment of teaching staff as per Schedule- IV to these regulations:  Provided further that the teaching faculty appointed on the basis of the Homoeopathy (Minimum Standards of Education) Regulations, 1983 will be covered under these regulations for all cadres.  Explanation.- for the purposes of this regulation, teaching experience of a Teacher in a subject shall be the teaching experience counted for that subject only: Provided also that these regulations shall not be applicable on teaching faculty appointed on prescribed post before this notification.
13	List of equipment.-
	To ensure proper provision of teaching and training material to the students, the college shall possess essentially required equipment in various departments, hospital, laboratories, dissection hall, library, pharmacy and other units of the college as per Schedule-III.
14	Power of Central Council to call for information and returns:-
	The Central Council of Homoeopathy shall have the power to call for such information and returns as it may deem fit from examining bodies, and colleges shall furnish the said information and returns in triplicate within the time specified by the Central Council:  Provided that if the examining bodies and/or colleges fail to provide the information and return to Central Council of Homoeopathy within the specified time limit, the said Central Council shall recommend for action against the concerned examining body or college under section 19 of the Act assuming that the concerned examining body or college is not complying with the regulation.
15	Co-operation with Inspectors and visitors:--
	Every college shall provide all necessary information, documents and records to the Inspectors and visitors appointed by the Central Council of Homoeopathy to discharge their duties and functions demanded by them during the inspection. FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT CCH Official Website @http://www.cchindia.com/educational-regulations.htm