TN govt colleges may get 345 more MBBS seats this year

  • | Saturday | 16th February, 2019

“With this, the total number of government medical colleges in the state will be 23. “Every year, students from private college move the court seeking transfer to government colleges if management decides not to continue the course,” said Dr R Kamaraj, a parent of a student in a private medical college. Our state has one of the maximum numbers of medical colleges in the government sector. CHENNAI: In a massive attempt to increase the number of undergraduate medical seats in the state, both government and private institutions together have applied for at least 950 more MBBS seats for 2019. This includes at least 345 seats in public institutions.The directorate of medical education has submitted its final compliance report after two rounds of inspections and is expecting the letter of permission from the Centre to start a government medical college in Karur in 2019 offering 150 medical seats.

CHENNAI: In a massive attempt to increase the number of undergraduate medical seats in the state, both government and private institutions together have applied for at least 950 more MBBS seats for 2019. This includes at least 345 seats in public institutions.The directorate of medical education has submitted its final compliance report after two rounds of inspections and is expecting the letter of permission from the Centre to start a government medical college in Karur in 2019 offering 150 medical seats. “With this, the total number of government medical colleges in the state will be 23. Our state has one of the maximum numbers of medical colleges in the government sector. In the coming years, we will increase the seats in existing colleges to at least 250 and open new colleges in all districts,” said the director of medical education Dr A Edwin Joe.This year, the state has applied for 95 more seats at Madurai government medical college and 100 at Tirunelveli government medical college. The inspectors had earlier asked administrators of the Madurai college to rectify certain infrastructure inadequacies. “We have submitted the compliance report for that as well. There were no inadequacies reported in Tirunelveli,” he said.In addition to government colleges, at least four private colleges that are planning at least 150 seats each have asked the state for essentiality certificates — a mandatory certificate to be handed over to the Centre. The list includes medical colleges backed by Lok Sabha deputy speaker M Thambidurai and DMK former minister S Jagathrakshakan.Educationists and activists said that the state should enforce stringent laws that will permit them to take over administration when the management announced the closure. “Every year, students from private college move the court seeking transfer to government colleges if management decides not to continue the course,” said Dr R Kamaraj, a parent of a student in a private medical college.

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