Four thousand PG Seats Added By Government, Is The Focus Right

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare yesterday said that an all-time record number of over 4,000 PG medical seats have been approved by Government of India in various medical colleges and hospitals for the academic session 2017-18 this year, taking the total number of PG seats available to 35,117. This includes DNB seats, which are equivalent to MD/MS, have increased by 2,147 in the last one year. There has been a total addition of 4,193 PG seats in the country so far, and a further addition of more than 1000 seats is likely to March 2017.

The Health Minister added that of the total increase, 2,046 seats are in medical colleges. Looking at the need to increase PG seats in clinical subjects, the Government had decided to amend the teacher-student ratio in clinical subjects in government medical colleges. This change alone has resulted in the creation of 1,137 extra seats in 71…