The Medical Council of India (MCI) is still waiting for details on 12,000 students from 97 colleges across the country. Even a month after medical colleges completed admission formalities for undergraduate medical (MBBS) course on August 31, despite a repeated reminder. Repeated reminders from the MCI to these colleges have failed to evoke any response.
The MCI mandates sharing admission-related details so that it can check compliance. The delay from colleges in sending information assumes significance in the wake of the medical education regulator cancelling the admission of 778 MBBS students — all in their second year of the course — in various private colleges in Puducherry after a probe found their colleges had not complied with the counselling process. “Had the irregularities been identified in 2016 itself, at least these candidates could have appeared in NEET in 2017 and sought…
