New Delhi: Union Health Mansukh Mandaviya addressing the Lok Sabha on February 11, said that the NMC has notified a total of 1,425 post-graduate seats,1,365 broad-speciality and 60 diplomas remaining vacant in the 2020-21 academic year.
The health minister gave this reply to a question regarding the number of PG medical seats that were left vacant during the previous academic year.
Responding to a written question, Mandaviya said that according to the provisions of the regulations on Graduate Medical Education and Postgraduate Medical Education, common counselling for admission to central medical educational institutions, all India quota seats in government medical colleges and deemed universities will be conducted by the Medical Council Committee (MCC), Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health, Government of India.
Similarly, in order to get admission to state quota seats in government medical colleges and all seats in private medical colleges, the respective state governments conduct the common counselling and are responsible for filling up the seats, he said.
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Listing out the steps that have been taken to ensure that postgraduate medical seats are not left vacant, Mandaviya stated the standard percentile for admission to PG degree and diploma courses has been reduced and the counselling for all India quota PG (broad speciality) seats has been increased to four rounds from the academic year 2021.
The steps taken to further increase the availability of medical postgraduate seats in India include a centrally sponsored scheme that will ensure to strengthen or upgrade the existing state government or central government medical colleges and a central sector scheme for up-gradation of government medical colleges by the construction of super speciality blocks.
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The health minister said that a total of 19 AIIMS have started the undergraduate courses and the faculty will be appointed as a teaching staff if they hold a DNB qualification.
Moreover, 8 broad specialities have approved the DNB diploma courses and the ratio of teacher to students has been rationalised to increase the number of postgraduate medical seats in the country, Mandaviya said.
The health minister concluded by saying that the regulations have been amended to make it mandatory for all medical institutions to begin PG programmes within three years of their MBBS recognition or continuation of recognition.
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