Nearly 4,000 medical students in 32 new private colleges disqualified by MCI as these colleges could not meet MCI standards. Out of 34 colleges approved by a Supreme Court-appointed oversight committee in May 2016, only two colleges met the criteria set by MCI. In most of these institutes, the MCI found shortage of faculty and resident doctors, locked intensive care units (ICU) and emergency wards, and vacant general wards.
Some of the colleges forged documents to show adequate faculty or lined up fake patients for MCI inspectors. The committee, headed by a retired judge, had overruled the Medical Council of India’s (MCI) decision with the condition that if these 32 colleges fail another inspection, they cannot admit students for two years. In the last summer, these newly established colleges admitted their first batch of 3,957 students who had qualified the national eligibility cum…
