In a shocker, the health ministry has barred 82 medical colleges to admit students for the academic session 2018-19 on MCI’s recommendation. This news comes as a blow to these 70 private and 12 government colleges, meaning >10,000 MBBS seats out of 64,000 available will be blocked. The ministry’s decision comes after recommendations from MCI, as various deficiencies in terms of inadequate infrastructure, faculty and resources among others were revealed during inspection. Click here to get the complete list of disapproved colleges .
Not only this, the health ministry has also rejected the proposal of giving approval to 68 new medical colleges including 31 government and 37 private colleges. Surprisingly, in February, The Union cabinet had approved plans to set up 24 new government medical colleges by 2021-22. Announcement of NEET 2018 results had brought an end to wait of lacs of…
