"People want to create things (medical colleges) without realising what the colleges require," a member of the MCI's academic committee told The Telegraph. The Union cabinet had in February approved plans to set up 24 new government-funded medical colleges by 2021-22, in addition to 58 medical colleges that were to be established and attached to district hospitals by 2019. Seventy of the 82 medical colleges denied permission to admit students are private colleges. The Vardhman Institute, one of the 82 colleges, has already trained five batches of MBBS students, and the first batch is undergoing internship. The health ministry has also rejected proposals from nine medical colleges - four government and five private - to increase their MBBS seats by 50 to 100 each.

Source: The Telegraph June 03, 2018 21:22 UTC