Health Ministry Approves LOP to 24 Medical Colleges, 2280 MBBS seats added for 2018-19

New Delhi: Bringing joy to thousands of medical aspirants across the country, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has released a public notice announcing its decision to issue Letter of Permission to Various medial institutions for establishment of new Medical Colleges/Increase in intake capacity in existing Medical Colleges for the academic session 2018-19. With the permission a total number of 2280 MBBS seats will be added to the undergraduate medical seat pool for the coming academic session.

This came after the Medical Council of India has recommended to Central Government to issue Letter of Permission (LoP) for the same

Medical Council of India recommended the Central government to issue LOP for the establishment of 13 new government medical colleges adding 1350 MBBS seats and 4 private medical colleges with 600 seats.

A. Establishment of new Medical College

(Government)

S.No.	State	Name of Colleges	Place	Seats
1	Arunachal Pradesh	Tomo Riba Institute of Health 86 Medical Sciences,	Naharlagun	50
2	Himachal Pradesh	Dr. Radhakrishnan Govt. Medical College	Hamirpur	100
3	Madhya Pradesh	Govt. Medical College Datia	Datia	150
4	Maharashtra	Govt. Medical College, Jalgaon	Jalgaon	100
5	Mizoram	Mizoram Institute of Medical Sciences	Falkawan	100
6	Odisha	Bolangir Medical College	Bolangir	100
7	Odisha	Balasore Medical College	Balasore	100
8	Rajasthan	Govt. Medical College Bhilwara	Bhilwara	100
9	Rajasthan	Govt. Medical College Bharatpur	Bharatpur	100
10	Rajasthan	Govt. Medical College Churu	Churu	100
11	Rajasthan	Govt. Medical College Dungarpur	Dungarpur	100
12	Rajasthan	Govt. Medical College Pali	Pali	100
13	Telangana	Government Medical College, Siddipet	Siddipet	150

(Private)

S.No.	State	Name of Colleges	Place	Seats
1	Telangana	Ayaan Institute of Medical Sciences	R R District	150
2	Uttar Pradesh	MSY Medical College & Hospital	Meerut	150
3	Gujarat	Banas Medical College and Research Institute	Palanpur	150
4	West Bengal	Jagannath Gupta Institute of Medical Science 86 Hospital	Kolkata	150

The central government has also issued permission for increase of seats in existing medical colleges. A Total of 180 seats will be added in existing government medical colleges as well as 150 seats will be added in 3 private medical colleges

 Increase in Intake Capacity

(Government)

S. No.	State	Name of Colleges	Increase Intake
1	Gujarat	Government Medical College Surat	150 to 250
2	Gujarat	Shri M.P Shah Govt. Medical College	200 to 250
3	Maharashtra	Armed  Force Medical College, Pune	140 to 150
4	Gujarat	Medical College Baroda	180 to 250

(Private)

S. No.	State	Name of Colleges	Increase Intake
1	Andhra	Pradesh NRI Academy of Sciences, Guntur	150 to 200
2	Andhra Pradesh	Great Eastern Medical School 86 Hospital, Srikakulam	100 to 150
3	Bihar	Narayan          Medical        College       86 Hospital, Jamuhar, Rohtas	100 to 150

The Ministry will issue necessary letters calling for documents etc. shortly and the letters will also be uploaded on the website of the Ministry.

The notice iterated that the Colleges whose Schemes have been approved are required to furnish the following documents/undertaking for getting the Letter of Permission (LoP) from the Central Government:-

•  The applicant shall provide all infrastructural facilities in terms of teaching and non-teaching staff, buildings, equipment, and hospital facilities as per Medical Council of India norms.

• No student shall be admitted in the above course till the formal permission of the Central Govt. is granted.

• The Private Medical College should provide Bank Guarantee of required amount (wherever applicable) in favor of Medical Council of India, New Delhi valid for three years from a nationalized/ scheduled Bank as per MCI's norms. However, medical colleges/institutions governed by the State Govt. are required to furnish only an undertaking to provide funds in their budget till the facilities are fully provided as per time bound programme indicated by them.

The applicant colleges except who have already furnished the required Bank Guarantee/ Undertaking etc., are therefore advised to be ready with necessary documents so that the same can be sent to the Ministry on receiving the letter for such documents. The last date for issuing LoP is 31.05.2018. In case of any difficulty, applicant organizations may communicate at dvkrao@nic. in 86 sushil.bading79@nic. in.

For more details click on the official site of Ministry Of Health given below:

https://mohfw.gov.in/sites/default/files/Public Notice for NMC and Increase of intake existing medical c.pdf