🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane* Maharashtra’s proposal to reduce 158 teaching posts across government medical colleges raises a basic question: should “minimum staffing norms” become the ceiling for public healthcare? The medical teachers’ association says the proposed restructuring would cut 31 posts at Pune’s B.J. Government Medical College alone. These teachers do not merely conduct lectures; many also provide clinical services at attached public hospitals such as Sas