Centre approved 10,023 medical seats under CSS across govt institutes from 2025-26 to 2028-29: MoS Health

New Delhi: The Central Government has approved 10,023 medical seats under the Centrally Sponsored Schemes across the government medical colleges from the financial year 2025-2026 to 2028-2029, the Union Minister of State for Health, Smt Anupriya Patel informed the Rajya Sabha recently.

Minister Patel also shared the details of the MBBS and PG medical seats that have increased during the last six years.

As per the information obtained from the National Medical Commission (NMC):

• a total of 2963 MBBS and 4983 PG medical seats were increased during the academic year 2020-2021,
• 8790 MBBS and 4705 PG medical seats were increased during 2021-2022, 7398 MBBS and
• 2874 PG medical seats were increased during the academic year 2022-2023,
• 9652 MBBS and 4713 PG medical seats were increased during 2023-2024,
• 8641 MBBS and 4186 PG medical seats were increased during 2024-2025,
• 11119 MBBS and 7619 PG medical seats were increased during 2025-2026.

These details were shared by the Minister in response to the queries raised in the Parliament regarding the number of additional seats MBBS and MD/MS seats approved and filled from 2020-21 to 2024-25, including the 10,023 newly sanctioned seats, the manner in which the expansion of medical seats has impacted each State’s doctorpopulation ratio including Rajasthan and what assessments or evaluations are available in this regard, whether the increase in domestic medical seats helped reduce students’ dependence on studying medicine abroad and what evidence supports this trend, whether the seats in medical colleges increased without compromising the quality of medical education, along with the details of steps taken by Government to enhance the quality of medical education.

In response to these queries, Minister Patel said that, as informed by the National Medical Commission (NMC), there is an increase of 48,563 MBBS seats and 29,080 PG seats in the country from Academic Year 2020-21 to 2025-26. Further, the Government has approved the addition of 10,023 medical seats under Centrally Sponsored Schemes across government colleges from the financial year 2025-26 to 2028-29.

"The expansion of medical seats reduce the gap in the healthcare workforce, particularly in underserved region and has a direct bearing on the doctor-population ratio across States, including Rajasthan. The growing number of medical seats, coupled with improvements in infrastructure and faculty, has made domestic institutions more accessible to Indian students," she further mentioned.

"NMC , as an apex regulatory body entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining the quality of medical education has notified various Regulations namely Minimum Standards Requirement (MSR), Undergraduate Medical Education Regulations (GMER), 2023, Maintenance of Standards of Medical Education Regulations, 2023 (MSMER-2023) and Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) Curriculum Guidelines 2024 to ensure the adherence to prescribed standards in medical education. These regulations are designed to uphold the integrity and quality of medical education and training across the country," added the Minister.

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