Despite a shortage of MBBS institutions, up to 2,078 seats have been vacant in 84 of the country’s 417 government and private medical colleges this year. The vacancies last year were merely 28 seats. And 4/83 colleges were unable to even fill 15% of seats sanctioned. Many of these colleges were newly sanctioned by the Oversight Committee (OC) appointed by the supreme court.Gaurav Sharma, Gaurav Sharma, MCI lawyer, pointed out, "this year, the supreme court scrapped the management quota under which colleges used to demand capitation fees.
Consequently, private colleges arbitrarily hiked their fees to levels that many students found unaffordable."An RTI response reflects that 46/51 colleges submitted data on admissions to MCI. An RTI response reflects that 46/51 colleges submitted data on admissions to MCI. Out of them only 14 colleges admitted 1,448 candidates (versus 2,200 seats). The…
