The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has reconstituted the Board of Governors for the Medical Council of India. Prof. K.K. Talwar former Director, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh would be the Chairman of the new Board of Governors. Other members nominated on the Board are Prof. K.S. Sharma, Prof Harbhajan Singh Rassam, Dr. Rajiv Chintaman Yeravdekar and Dr. Purushotham Lal, subsequent to the promulgation of the Ordinance extending the supersession of the Medical Council of India by another year.