Uttar Pradesh Welcomes Seven New Medical Colleges: Check the Details

2024-08-07 04:21:57

Counseling will be conducted for 10,500 MBBS seats across government, private, and PPP-mode medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh.

New Delhi: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has approved the launch of MBBS programs in seven new medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh for the 2024-25 academic year. This approval follows discussions between Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union Health Minister JP Nadda regarding the recognition of 13 new medical colleges in the state. Consequently, Letters of Permission have been issued for the autonomous state medical colleges in Bijnor, Bulandshahr, Kushinagar, Pilibhit, Sultanpur, Kanpur Dehat, and Lalitpur.

The addition of these new medical colleges will result in an increase of 600 MBBS seats in the state. Overall, counseling will be conducted for 10,500 MBBS seats across government, private, and PPP-mode medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh.

Meanwhile, the remaining six medical colleges will resubmit their requests for approval from the NMC. Upon approval, these colleges will also receive Letters of Permission.

Furthermore, several medical colleges across the state have received permission to increase their number of seats, including those operated under government, private, and PPP models.

Director General of Medical Education Kinjal Singh stated, "For the academic session 2024-25, Letters of Permission have been issued for the autonomous state medical colleges in Bijnor, Bulandshahr, Kushinagar, Pilibhit, Sultanpur, Kanpur Dehat, and Lalitpur. Counseling will be conducted for 600 MBBS seats across these seven medical colleges. Additionally, the government medical colleges in Agra and Meerut have had their seat counts increased by 72 and 50, respectively, bringing the total to 200 seats at Agra Medical College and 150 seats at Meerut Medical College."

Mr. Singh added, "The PPP-mode medical colleges in Shamli, Maharajganj, and Sambhal have also received Letters of Permission for 150, 150, and 50 MBBS seats respectively, for the 2024-25 session. Similarly, a new private medical college in Gorakhpur has been granted permission for 50 MBBS seats for this academic session. GS Medical College in Hapur has also been allowed to increase its MBBS seats by 100, bringing the total to 250 seats."

With an increase of 722 MBBS seats this year, the number of MBBS seats in Uttar Pradesh has risen from 3,828 to 4,550 for the 2024-25 session.

Additionally, there has been an increase of 150 seats in private medical colleges. The private sector previously had 5,450 MBBS seats, which has now increased to 5,600 for the current session. Furthermore, 350 seats will be available for counseling in three new PPP-mode medical colleges.