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MBBS axe on 82 colleges
Tuesday, June 5, 2018 IST
MBBS axe on 82 colleges

New Delhi: The Union health ministry has denied 82 existing medical colleges permission to accept students for the 2018-19 academic session, blocking at least 10,430 of the estimated 64,000 MBBS seats available nationwide.

 
 

It has also rejected proposals to approve 68 new medical colleges, including two in Bengal and four in Bihar, which would have added 9,000 MBBS seats for the 2018-19 academic session.
 
The decisions, announced on Thursday, were based on recommendations from the Medical Council of India (MCI), the apex regulatory body for medical education that assesses whether colleges have the required infrastructure, faculty and number of patients.
 
The regulators cited "deficiencies" in the colleges and highlighted how a scarcity of resources was challenging India's ambition to expand medical education.
 
"People want to create things (medical colleges) without realising what the colleges require," a member of the MCI's academic committee told The Telegraph.
 
The Union cabinet had in February approved plans to set up 24 new government-funded medical colleges by 2021-22, in addition to 58 medical colleges that were to be established and attached to district hospitals by 2019.
 
But the rejection of approvals for 68 new colleges, 31 of them government institutions, have raised the question how the government would find faculty for the planned new colleges.
 
"The ambitions don't seem to match the ground reality," said Ganapathy Murugan, executive director with the New Delhi-based Public Health Resource Society, a network of public health professionals.
 
Seventy of the 82 medical colleges denied permission to admit students are private colleges. The affected government colleges are in Uttar Pradesh (4), Bihar (3), Jharkhand (2), Chhattisgarh (1), Karnataka (1) and Kerala (1).
 
"We have a shortage of faculty - but this is a problem shared by medical colleges across India, particularly those far away from large cities," said Jyoti Krishna Das, principal of the government-run Vardhman Institute of Medical Sciences in Pawapuri, Bihar.
 

 
 
 
 
 

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Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST


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