The Private Medical College and Dental College Bill, 2022 was placed in Parliament on Wednesday to ensure discipline in private medical and dental colleges by bringing those under a law instead of  two separate guidelines. Health Minister Zahid Maleque placed the Bill and it was sent to the respective Parliamentary Standing Committee for further scrutiny. The committee was asked to submit its report within 60 days. The country’s private medical and dental colleges are now operated under the Private Medical College Establishment and Operation Guidelines, 2011 and Private Dental College Establishment and Operation Guidelines, 2009. Read: Speaker nominates panel chair of 17th JS session As per the bill, a private medical or dental college must have at least 50 students while its teachers-students ratio will have to be 1:10 as per the proposed law. A medical college needs to have at least two acres of land in any metropolitan area while the land requirement for the dental college is one acre. For setting up a medical college outside any metropolitan area, the land requirement is four acres and it is two acres for a dental college.