Gujarat plans to Establish 8 New Medical Colleges, 1200 MBBS seats to be added
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat State Government intends to open up 8 new medical colleges in the state in the coming two years with the intention of adding at least 1200 MBBS seats.
The state health department aims to start new medical colleges in Rajpipla, Navsari, Jam Khambhaliya, Botad and Veraval in the next academic year. The State government intends to ensure that there at least one medical college in every district of the state. For this, the department will have to set up about seven additional medical colleges in districts that do not have a single college, certain sources informed TOI.
Speaking to TOI, an official in the health department said, "The new medical colleges in Morbi, Godhra and Porbandar are expected to start in 2021-22. The inspection process by National Medical Commission (NMC) has been completed. The new medical colleges will add about 150 seats each."
He added that the state health department is planning to begin new medical colleges in Rajpipla, Navsari, Jam Khambhaliya, Botad and Veraval in the next academic year.
NMC, under the ministry of health and family welfare, is working on a plan to increase the total number of under graduate medical seats from about 82,500 to 1 lakh seats by next year, sources told Times of India. There are close to 550 medical colleges in the country offering MBBS courses of which 49% are government run and remaining are self-financed and on public-private-partnership basis.
At present, there 30 colleges in the state which contribute 5,508 seats for which the Admission Committee for Professional Under Graduate Medical Educational Courses (ACPUGMEC) carries out the admission process. There are another 300 seats in the state under two deemed universities for which the admission is carried out at the college level. ACPUGMEC is not involved in this.
