After NMC inspection, Lady Hardinge Medical College admits 213 MBBS students

A letter in this regard was sent by the National Medical Commission (NMC) to the ministry on June 27.

The said communication was in response to the ministry’s query regarding the NMC issuing a show cause notice to the medical college in the year 2022 for stoppage of admissions over non-compliance of deficiencies pointed out by the erstwhile Medical Council of India (MCI) in its assessment conducted in 2008.

Meanwhile, the NMC mentioned that MBBS seats were increased from 150 to 200 at LHMC from the academic year 2011-12 in order to implement OBC reservations. Thereafter, inspections were scheduled from time to time by MCI for verification of facilities of CoR at LHMC, but the college did not allow/agree to conduct these assessments to date, the letter stated.

Thereafter, in the academic session 2019-20, LHMC was further permitted to take admission from 200 to 240 MBBS seats annually for implementation of EWS quota in educational institutions. “It may clearly be seen that the number of MBBS seats has been doubled in the last decade, but no assessment has been done to verify the facilities available at the medical college and its associated hospital,” the NMC said.

"We have complied with the show cause notice sent by NMC, and now, the admission process is going on. Till now, 213 admissions for MBBS courses have been completed in the first phase," an official told TOI.