Medical admissions: increase in the number of seats available for UG after NMC approval

Among total news seats, there are 1,200 seats for new establishments of government medical colleges. This includes ESIC Medical College and Hospital in Mumbai’s Andheri which had requested for approval for 50 seats and had been approved by NMC.

The total number of new seats also includes approvals for increase in intake of existing medical colleges. Out of 1,520 newly approved seats under increase in intake, 970 are in government medical colleges and 550 in deemed university medical colleges. The latter includes four deemed medical colleges in Maharashtra – Datta Meghe Medical College in Nagpur (50 seats), Bharati Vidyapeeth University Medical College in Pune (100), Mahatma Gandhi Missions Medical College in Aurangabad (50) and Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical College & Hospital in Sangli (100).

A parent representative Sudha Shenoy, said, “The 50 seats in new ESIC to come up in Mumbai is not really a major relief, because 15 percent of those seats will go for All India Quota (AIQ) admissions and the remaining are for aspirants who are wards of ESIC insured persons only. Increase in Deemed university medical colleges will be a relief, although an expensive option. But as new approvals are now allotted by NMC, it is expected that there will be an increase in intake of private medical colleges in the state. But this will reflect only when the Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell will issue the seat matrix for the second round of UG medical admissions under state quota.”