AHMEDABAD: The National Medical Commission (NMC) under the ministry of health and family welfare is working out a plan to increase the total number of undergraduate medical seats to 1 lakh by next year, sources said.
This was discussed at a recent meeting of NMC chaired by the Union health secretary. “There are presently 82,500 MBBS seats across the country and the government plans to take it to 1 lakh in a year’s time,” a government official said. There are nearly 540 medical colleges in the country that offer MBBS courses, 49% of which are government run and the rest self-financed and on public-private-partnership basis.
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