"The biometric system will be installed in all the 300 medical colleges across India within two months," said MCI president Ketan Desai.

Dr Vedprakash Mishra, chairman of MCI's Academic Cell, said: "The 10 regional centres being run by the MCI for give only basic orientation for three days. The apical body, however, will help upgrade courses so that a talent pool is created and there are experts to teach different medical subjects."

At present, 1,000 teachers have been given orientation and the MCI aims to make a basic medical education course mandatory for all medical teachers across India every five years.

Officals said the apical centre will also have a web portal so that medical education courses can be accessed from across the country. There will also be a central server in MCI's Delhi office so that biometric attendance across 300 colleges could be monitored from one centre. "There have been several incidents of doctors working in one hospital or college but reporting in some other hospital. With the central server system, such practices would be curbed," Dr Desai added.