Due to the lack of infrastructure and faculty facilities, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has recently come up with the advisory denying the permission to admit MBBS students for the academic year 2017-18 & 2018-19 in the number of medical colleges. The reason for the debarment is the failure of the medical colleges to meet the requirements of the MCI including faculty and infrastructure. A deep analysis of the inspection at the medical colleges have revealed that a total of 8100 MBBS seats have been lost for non-compliance of MCI requirements.

These include both new medical colleges which have been debarred from taking fresh batch admissions as well as existing medical colleges from different states which have been disallowed a seat increase. A majority of these medical colleges are private medical colleges which have failed to meet the infrastructural and manpower requirements of…