After withdrawal of seats from NEET Counselling, NMC gives permission to Chandulal Chandrakar Medical college for 150 MBBS seats

Raipur: After the revocation of recognition and Medical Counselling Committee's (MCC) decision of withdrawal of seats from the NEET Counselling, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has now given its permission for 150 MBBS seats Chandulal Chandrakar Medical College, Durg.

Confirming this, the Health Minister of Chhattisgarh, T S Singhdeo mentioned in a Tweet on Wednesday, "I would like to inform all the people of the state with great satisfaction that Chandulal Chandrakar Medical College, Durg has got permission from National Institute of Medical Sciences for 150 seats. Establishment of this medical college in the state will prove beneficial for all medical aspirants."

The Apex medical education regulatory body, NMC has given its permission to the medical college for the academic year 2022-2023 and the nod for 150 MBBS seats will remain valid for a year and only for one batch of students, adds Daily Pioneer.

Permission from NMC has come at a tie when there were lots of confusions regarding the status of medical admission at Chandulal Medical College. Medical Dialogues had recently reported that issuing a notice, MCC had informed about the withdrawal of 22 MBBS seats from the NEET Counselling 2022. These seats were from Chandulal Chandrakar Memorial Government Medical College, Durg, whose recognition had been revoked from the NMC.

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"It is hereby informed to all candidates that the following Institute has been removed from the UG Counselling 2022 as the recognition of the college has been revoked by NMC," MCC had mentioned in the notice.

While MCC decided to withdraw the seats, now the National Medical Commission has given its permission to the medical college for 150 MBBS seats.

As per the latest media report by Daily Pioneer, the permission for these seats will remain valid only for the academic year 2022-2023 and for the admission of the next batch of students, the college will be required to obtain permission from the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) of NMC. In case of violation, the college will face strict action under the NMC Act and regulations.

The acquisition process of CCM Medical College faced major controversy as the opposition parties including the members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had alleged that the aim of acquiring the private medical college which was facing huge financial loss was to favour people associated with the institute, whose management included members from a family in which Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel's daughter is married.

CCM Medical College with an yearly intake of 150 MBBS seats was declared 'zero year' by the erstwhile Medical Council of India (MCI). The institute failed to get the MCI approval for 2019-20 after the medical council's team inspected the medical colleges' premises and found gross deficiencies.

Staring at an uncertain future due to prevailing gross deficiencies at their medical college which led to the de-recognition by the MCI, the students had approached various governmental authorities seeking transfer to other medical colleges in a bid to save their career prospects. Subsequently, they had filed a petition with the HC on the basis of the medical college's de-recognition and MCI report and High Court directed the state government to form a committee and draft a scheme for transferring the aggrieved MBBS students into other medical colleges.

Later, the management had expressed its difficulty in running the college and requested the government to take charge of the college.