Bhopal, Sep 16 - All five medical institutions run by the Madhya Pradesh government are facing the threat of de-recognition for not meeting Medical Council of India (MCI) norms, but the colleges are unfazed and say this is a routine affair.

None of the five institutions run by the state have found mention in the MCI's list of recognised colleges that was published and distributed Tuesday with the prospectus of the Pre-PG Medical Entrance Test conducted by All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS).

These are the MGM Medical College (Indore), Shyam Shah Medical College (Rewa), Gandhi Medical College (Bhopal), Gajra Raja Medical College (Gwalior) and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College (Jabalpur).

The MCI undertakes periodic inspection of medical colleges in order to maintain the standard of medical education and health services in the country and during one such inspection in 2006 it had pointed out several shortcomings in all the five medical colleges.

'The medical colleges in the state were found to be short by 40 percent of the requirements as per MCI norms and nothing much has been done to eliminate those shortcomings till now,' said a Gandhi Medical College Faculty member who wished to remain anonymous.

'The medical colleges which are found not meeting the requirement as per the MCI regulations are recommended for withdrawal of recognition to the central government and the MCI has already done that,' the member said.

K.K. Prajapati, state president of the Junior Doctor Association (JDA), said: 'This has baffled us. The fact that all the five medical colleges of the state are on the verge of de-recognition for not abiding by MCI norms has put the future of thousands of medical students in the dark.