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Private med ed importance

State Pop. MBBS Government Private State Pop. MBBS Government Private
(million) Seats (million) Seats
Karnataka 66 9,345 2,900 6,445 Assam 34 1,050 1,050 0
Maharashtra 124 9,000 4,430 4,570 Himachal
Tamil Nadu 76 8,000 3,650 4,350 Pradesh 7 920 770 150
Uttar Pradesh 228 7,428 3,178 4,250 Uttarakhand 11 825 525 300
Gujarat 63 5,700 3,700 2,000 Jharkhand 37 780 630 150
Telangana 40 5,240 1,790 3,450 Manipur 3 225 225 0
Andhra Tripura 4 225 125 100
Pradesh 52 5,210 2,410 2,800 Goa 1.5 180 180 0
Rajasthan 78 4,200 2,900 1,300 Chandigarh 1.1 150 150 0
Kerala 35 4,105 1,555 2,550 Dadra & Nagar
West Bengal 97 4,000 3,150 850 Haveli 0.3 150 150 0
Madhya Andaman &
Pradesh 82 3,585 2,135 1,450 Nicobar Islands 0.4 100 100 0
Bihar 119 2,140 1,390 750 Mizoram 1.2 100 100 0
Odisha 45 1,950 1,250 700 Arunachal
Haryana 27 1,660 710 950 Pradesh 1.6 50 50 0
Puducherry 0.8 1,530 380 1,150 Meghalaya 3.2 50 50 0
Punjab 29 1,425 650 775 Sikkim 0.6 50 0 50
Delhi 32 1,422 1,222 200 Lakshadweep 0.06 0 0 0
Chhattisgarh 28 1,345 895 450 Nagaland 2.1 0 0 0
Jammu &
Kashmir 13 1,135 1,035 100 Source: statsofindia.in & National Medical Commission

private medical institutions financial focus on formulating rules and regu-
and administrative freedom,” says Dr. lations which improve the quality of
Sambit Dash, assistant professor, medical education and graduates, ad-
biochemistry & genetics at the Ma- dress the pressing problem of faculty
nipal Academy of Higher Education shortages and provide support to fac-
(MAHE), and a columnist (Livemint, ulty pursuing research,” says Dr. Kan-
The Wire, Deccan Herald) on medical di, who has published a paper Medical
education and public healthcare. Education and Research in India: A
A PPREHENSION ABOUT cal education by MCI proved a dismal
Teacher’s Perspective (May 2022).
Although tight regulation of medi-
continuing micro-man-
agement and discretion-
believes greater rather than lesser
ary regulation of private failure, its successor council NMC
medical colleges has not been allayed regulation is the panacea for India’s
by NMC. Dr. Venkataramana medical education mess. Its fees dik-
Kandi, professor of microbiology at tat capping fees for 50 percent seats
the Prathima Institute of Medical Sci- in private medical colleges as also
ences, Karimnagar, Telangana, cites Dr Kandi: arbritary micro-management deemed universities — the latter hith-
NMC’s cancellation of 450 MBBS erto free of fee ceilings — is certain
seats and 70 PG seats in three private been enrolled and the colleges are fully to discourage edupreneurs from aug-
medical colleges in Telangana in May functional? Promoters invest large menting existing capacity to bridge
for violating infrastructure standards, amounts to start colleges and avail the demand-supply gap. For several
as a case in point. “Why couldn’t NMC bank finance to construct them. It’s decades, state governments country-
monitor these colleges at the construc- not right to suddenly reduce intake wide have snatched quotas from pri-
tion stage? What’s the point of cancel- capacity which throws financial cal- vately promoted medical colleges.
ling seats when students have already culations into disarray. NMC needs to Under this arrangement backed

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