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The Telangana Assembly on Sunday, August 31, passed the Telangana Allopathic Medical Care Establishment (Registration and Regularisation) Repeal Bill 2025 to prevent dual laws for regulating private allopathic institutions.
Introducing the Bill, Telangana Health Minister C Damodar Rajanarsimha said that the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh government had enacted the Andhra Pradesh Allopathic Private Medical Care Establishments (Registration and Regularisation) Act 2002 for private medical care institutions in undivided Andhra Pradesh.
In 2010, the Congress-led Union government also enacted the Clinical Establishments Act, which also regulated allopathic institutions. In effect, both the 2002 and 2010 Acts worked side by side in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. Following the bifurcation of the Telugu states, Telangana adopted both acts as well. “The existence of both bills in parallel has created legal ambiguity,” the Health Minister said.
The legal ambiguity refers to which Act (whether the 2010 or 2002 Act) would determine the registration and regulation of allopathic private medical care. By annulling the 2002 Act, Telangana would bring allopathic medical care under the 2010 Act alone.
“This (the current repeal Bill) seeks to give effect to the government’s decision to apply the Central Act uniformly across Telangana,” Damodar stated. “The Telangana government has informed the Union of this transition in 2022, and the repeal is expected to streamline regulatory mechanisms for private healthcare facilities,” he added.
The repeal Bill will be introduced in the Telangana Legislative Council for approval.