Government declared the Number of MBBS Seats has been Increased by 75%, PG by 93% Since 2014

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New Delhi: The government has revealed that the number of undergraduate MBBS seats has increased from 51,348 before 2014 to 89,875 now, which is an increase of 75 percent, and that of post-graduate seats has increased by 93% during the same period.

In a reply to a written question in Rajya Sabha, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that the Indian students who go abroad to pursue MBBS education and obtain foreign medical qualifications have to crack the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination to be registered as a medical practitioner in the country.

The minister said the government has taken several steps to further increase the availability of doctors in India. The number of undergraduate seats has risen from 51,348 before 2014 to 89,875 seats till date which is an increase of 75 percent.

There's an increase of 93 percent from 31,185 seats before 2014 to 60,202 now in the PG seats, Mandaviya added.

The centrally sponsored scheme for the establishment of new medical colleges by upgrading district/ referral hospitals, under which a total of 157 new medical colleges have been approved and 71 are already operational are some of the steps taken to increase the number of seats.

A centrally sponsored scheme to strengthen or upgrade the existing state government or central government medical colleges to increase MBBS and PG seats, and a central sector scheme to upgrade government medical colleges by constructing super specialty blocks.

Further, a total of 75 projects have been approved and 55 of them have been completed. Under the central sector scheme for establishing new AIIMS, 22 AIIMS have been approved. Also, 19 of the AIIMS have started the under-graduate courses, Mandaviya said.

The minister concluded by saying that the government has enacted the National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions (NCAHP) Act, 2021 and an interim commission has been notified under the provisions of the Act for a rapid growth in the number of allied medical seats in the country.

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