Bihar: state govt not to allow admission for PG diploma seats

"However, the PG diploma course in orthopaedics in DMC is recognised by the MCI and it has just two seats. Of the 93 PG diploma seats in PMC, 36 are recognised," the source said, adding an official communication to principals of these colleges asking them not to take admission on the unrecognised PG diploma seats would be sent soon.

As reported by HT, The Medical Council of India (MCI) has recommended to the Centre that it should not renew 260 undergraduate medical seats, of which 160 seats are in four government medical colleges, in Bihar.

If the Centre accepts MCI’s recommendations, Bihar will lose 160 out of the 950 available undergraduate (MBBS) seats in its nine government-run medical institutions. The reduction, if it actually happens, will be effective from the ensuing 2016-17 academic session.

The MCI has recommended the Centre that it should not renew its permission for admission of the fourth batch of MBBS students against the increased intake from 50 to 100 at Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College Hospital (ANMMCH), Gaya, Sri Krishna Medical College Hospital (SKMCH), Muzaffarpur and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital (JLNMCH), Bhagalpur.

In the case of Darbhanga Medical College Hospital (DMCH), Darbhanga, the MCI recommended that the permission for intake from 90 to 100 should not be renewed.

The MCI also pointed to deficiency in teaching beds, inadequate staff for registration counters, inadequate waiting area, unavailability of ECG room, minor operation theatre and common dressing room and injection room for male and female patients. It had listed out a total of 34 objections, some of which were advisories.