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The Hindu
30-07-2025
- Health
- The Hindu
NMC grants conditional renewal, recognition to 22 government medical colleges in Karnataka
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has granted conditional renewal and recognition to 22 government medical colleges in Karnataka for the academic year 2025-26, which had earlier been issued show cause notices for not meeting the parameters, including infrastructure and faculty requirements. The colleges have been given four months to comply, but no penalty has been imposed on any of them this year. They have been warned that admissions will be restricted for the next academic year if the system is not rectified. In the year 2024-25, the NMC had imposed a penalty in the range of ₹2 lakh to ₹15 lakh on 16 government medical colleges, which had failed to meet the required norms. Periodic verification The NMC periodically asks all medical colleges having a valid letter of permission (LoP) for medical course admissions to submit and upload all details and documents on its portal as part of their annual declaration. Through a public notice on April 25, the commission had also asked colleges to furnish information on minor operation theatres and major operation theatres. There are 22 government medical colleges functioning in the State, and these colleges have failed to meet standard parameters, including infrastructure and faculty recruitment. Therefore, the NMC had served show-cause notices to all theses colleges. This is the first time that such notices have been issued to all government medical colleges, including Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI), which has the best infrastructure and is most sought after by students. Most of the colleges had replied to the notices with documents. Not satisfied with this, the NMC did not approve the enhancement of 800 medical seats submitted by the Medical Education Department this year. In addition, it did not sanction new colleges for the State. Speaking to The Hindu, B.L. Sujatha Rathod, director, Directorate of Medical Education, said, 'This year, we have been granted conditional renewal and recognition to courses in government medical colleges in the State. We have given a deadline of four months to fulfil the parameters. However, we have not imposed any penalty. If they do not fulfil the norms within the prescribed time frame, we can impose a penalty,' she said. Submitted proposal 'All government medical colleges have good infrastructure and facilities. However, 30% of the faculty posts in undergraduate (UG) medical courses and 60% in postgraduate (PG) medical courses are vacant. The Department of Medical Education has already submitted a proposal to the Finance Department for filling these posts. But the government has restricted all recruitments till the Justice Nagamohan Das Committee on internal reservation submits its report to the government. Therefore, action will be taken to fill the faculty posts as soon as the internal reservation report is submitted,' Ms. Rathod added.
The Hindu
10-06-2025
- Health
- The Hindu
NMC yet to give permission for enhancement of medical seats; medical seat matrix delayed
The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-2025) results will be out in a few days, and this time, the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has made preparations to conduct the Common Entrance Test (CET-2025) and NEET counselling simultaneously for admission to various professional courses, including medical and engineering. However, even though the deadline given by KEA has expired, the Department of Medical Education (DME) has not submitted the medical seat matrix. It has been learnt that the reason for the delay is that the National Medical Commission (NMC) has not yet given permission for the enhancement of undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) medical seats in the State's medical colleges for 2025-26. The DME had submitted a proposal to the NMC in March 2025 for the enhancement of a total of 800 MBBS and 700 PG medical seats for the State. However, even after three months of submitting the request, permission has not been granted for the seat enhancement. The last date for submitting the seat matrix was June 4, 2025. The Technical Education Department has submitted the seat matrix, according to which a total of 69,717 government quota engineering seats are available for 2025-26. This year, there has been an increase of 7,650 (11.9%) engineering seats, all of them Computer Science and related courses. Tentative seat matrix However, the DME has already prepared a tentative medical seat matrix for 2025-26, including the number of additional seats proposed in the request submitted to the NMC and the seats available in government medical college proposed to be established in Ramanagara and the Farookh Academy of Medical Education in Mysuru starting this year. There are a total of 71 medical colleges in the State, out of which 12,395 MBBS seats will be available this year. In addition, 3,355 dental seats are available in 45 dental colleges, 39,595 BSc Nursing seats in 650 nursing colleges, 16,441 Allied Health Sciences seats in 202 Allied Health Sciences Colleges, and 5,710 seats in 120 Physiotherapy colleges. In addition, 4,027 PG medical seats are available in 47 postgraduate medical colleges, 846 MDS seats in 31 postgraduate dental colleges, 4,772 seats in 204 postgraduate nursing colleges, 1,217 seats in 43 PG allied health sciences colleges, and 819 seats in 41 PG physiotherapy colleges. Speaking to The Hindu, Rathod, director, Directorate of Medical Education said, 'It is not known why the NMC is delaying the increase in seats in medical courses. Already, the NMC has served show-cause notices to 22 government medical colleges and several private medical colleges that are facing problems, including non-appointment of necessary faculty. We have given an appropriate response to the NMC in this regard. So, we are hoping that we may get permission to increase the UG and PG medical seats before the NEET results. The matrix will be submitted as soon as the NMC gives permission.'
