No permission to 5 new medical colleges in Rajasthan again this year

JAIPUR: In a big blow to medical education in the state, Medical Council of India (MCI) has yet again recommended to the Centre to not give permission for the establishment of seven proposed government medical colleges in seven districts of the state.

It is for the second consecutive year that the MCI has done this. The MCI’s decision is a major embarrassment for the state government which, like last year, had announced that the medical colleges would be operational from the coming academic year but now will fail to even get them started.
The state government here was hopeful of starting academic session from 2018-19 in at least five districts – Bhilwara, Bharatpur, Churu, Pali and Dungarpur. However, all applications for the proposed colleges were rejected by the MCI. The state government had little hope for Barmer and Sikar as it was not prepared for beginning with new session.

MCI released its report at the executive committee meeting, held on December 14, 2017 in New Delhi, (MOM for this meeting is available on MCI WEBSITE) during which applications for new medical colleges and increasing the number of seats at the existing medical colleges in the country were discussed.

The MCI team had inspected the proposed medical colleges in the state in November. The assessment report done by the MCI team was presented before the executive committee. The executive committee found that these medical colleges do not have adequate facilities leading to failure to meet the eligibility criteria for commencing as medical colleges from 2018-19