Another 1010 MBBS Seats to be added in Madhya Pradesh, confirms State Finance Minister

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Now, the finance minister of Madhya Pradesh Jagdish Devda has recently announced that another 1010 MBBS seats will be added to the seat matrix of the State, adds the Times of India.

The focus for increasing the MBBS seats will be beneficial for the tribal areas of the State. While in the Phase I of expansion 58 new medical colleges were added to the State, in the Phase II of the expansion 24 locations had been shortlisted including at Sagar.

In the recent Phase III expansion,  Rajgarh, Mandla, Neemuch, Mandsaur, Sheopur and Singrauli got selected for setting up a new medical college. The daily adds that as of December 2022, in the last five years, six medical colleges had been added to the seat matrix of the State. During the budget of the previous year, it had been mentioned that the target was to increase the MBBS seats in the State from 2,350 to 3,250 MBBS seats.

Last year, around 76,000 candidates belonging to MP had appeared for the NEET UG examination. The number of aspirants was only 58059 back in the year 2019. 

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