19 MBBS Seats per 1 lakh population: With 6040 MBBS seats, Telangana Stands sixth among States
Hyderabad: With 6,040 MBBS seats, Telangana has secured the sixth position among the States with maximum number of seats offering MBBS admission. Although the journey to the first position is still a long way, unlike other States, Telangana has 19 MBBS seats per one lakh population.
The data in this regard has been revealed by the State Health Minister T Harish Rao, who claimed that the huge increase of MBBS seats is helping students from economically weaker sections for realising their dream of becoming a doctor. In fact, a student with the rank of 8,78,200 has also been allotted a seat in the State
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that an additional 1,200 MBBS seats were added to the seat matrix of Telangana with the inauguration of eight new government medical colleges in eight districts of the State.
Established at a cost of Rs 4,080 crore, these medical colleges have been set up in Sangareddy, Mahabubabad, Mancherial, Jagtial, Wanaparthy, Kothagudem, Nagarkurnool and Ramagundam.
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Recently, while providing the break up of MBBS seats in the States of the country, Minister of State for Health, Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar had informed the Parliament that India has a total number of 96,077 MBBS seats currently.
As per the break up provided by the Union Health Ministry, Tamil Nadu has the highest number of altogether 10825 MBBS seats. Karnataka comes in the second place with an intake capacity for 10745 MBBS seats. The third and fourth position have been occupied by Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh with altogether 9995 and 9053 MBBS seats respectively. Gujarat stands fifth with an intake capacity for 6200 MBBS seats. Therefore, Telangana has secured the sicth position with 6040 MBBS seats.
As per the latest media report by The New Indian Express, providing a detailed brief about the increse of MBBS seats in Telangana, Health Minister T Harish Rao informed that the decisions taken by the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao are keeping the State at the top in India in terms of medical education. He added, "Students had to go to distant countries like China, Ukraine, Russia, Philippines to pursue MBBS. However, not only parents are now getting relief from the financial burden but also the opportunities to pursue medicine within Telangana have increased."
Apart from the 1200 MBBS seats, another 1067 MBBS seats have been made available for the Telangana medical aspirants this year after the State implemented 85 percent reservation of Category-B management quota MBBS and BDS seats in minority and non-minority private medical colleges for the local students.
