NEW DELHI: With a goal to produce more doctors, the government has increased 4,500 seats this year in the MBBS course in the medical colleges, increasing the number of seats in the existing medical colleges and approving 37 new medical colleges. The Medical Council of India (MCI) has increased 850 seats in the existing colleges while putting a ban on six colleges for admissions this year to maintgain quality of education, the Health Ministry sources said.
With the new medical colleges added from this academic session, the number of medical colleges in the country has gone up to 529. As against 69,712 seats available for MBBS in the previous session, those qualifying in the NEET this year have better prospects of admissions that have gone up to 74,215.
