Medical Education in Karnataka: 650 MBBS, 216 PG Medical Seats added to Seat Matrix

Bengaluru: In a major boost to medical education in Karnataka, from this academic year 650 MBBS and 216 Postgraduate medical seats have been added to the State seat matrix taking the total number of MBBS seats and PG seats to 10,795 and 5,360 respectively.

The reason for such a huge increase in the total number of medical seats is the recent approval from the National Medical Commission (NMC) for the government medical colleges in Haveri, Yadgir and Chikmagaluru and the medical seats in Sri Siddaganga Institute of Medical Sciences, Tumakuru. Apart from this, 50 medical seats have been increased in Ballari's Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences as well.

As per the information provided by the Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya before the Lok Sabha in July, there were a total number of 63 medical colleges in Karnataka with an intake capacity of 10145, the second highest after Tamil Nadu with 10725 MBBS seats.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that these 10145 seats, 3150 MBBS seats are in the 21 Government medical colleges, whereas there are a total number of 6995 MBBS seats in 42 private medical colleges.