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- The Medical Council of India recommended to blacklist a total of 82 medical colleges as they lack proper infrastructure and other facilities.
- The proposal of 9 medical colleges that were seeking approval to increase the seats from 50 to 100 has also been rejected.
After the NEET UG 2018 results, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has blacklisted around 82 medical colleges. These 82 colleges will be unable to offer fresh admissions to the candidates for the 2018-19 academic sessions following which the number of seats will drop from 64,000 to 10,000.
The decision to blacklist the colleges has been made as per the recommendations made by the Medical Council of India (MCI). As per the report of the MCI, these colleges lacked proper infrastructure, faculty and other facilities which are the basis of assessment to grant approval of the same.
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Apart from this, the council has also rejected the proposal of 9 medical colleges that were seeking approval to increase the intake from 50 to 100. It has also barred more than 30 colleges from increasing the number of intakes or introducing new speciality programmes such as plastic surgery, cardiology etc. The list of barred colleges includes Christian Medical College, King George Medical University, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences among others.
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The ministry rejected the approvalof establishing the new medical colleges as well. As per the approval, 68 new medical colleges were to be set up across the country. The establishment of these colleges would have added the number to 9,000 additional seats. The rejection of this approval will lead to the loss of seats. Many medical aspirants are likely to suffer as the seats are not enough to accommodate all the students.
