Exiting news for punjab medical students . Number of seats increased at Faridkot medical college 37 years on, MCI adds 50 seats to MBBS course & 16 seats to PG course Faridkot, June 6 MBBS aspirants from the region have news to cheer about. After a break of 37 years, the Medical Council of India (MCI), has for the first time, increased seats (from 50 to 100) in Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital (GGSMCH), Faridkot. "Besides increasing the capacity of this medical college for the graduation degree course, the MCI has also increased the number of seats in post-graduation in this medical college from 35 to 51," said Dr SS Gill, vice-chancellor, Baba Farid University of Health Science (BFUHS), the governing body of the medical college. "As we provided the infrastructure and teachers required as per the MCI norms, so the Medical Council of India increased the seats in the medical college," said the VC. While there was a steep rise in seats in the private medical colleges of Punjab in the last five years, not even a single seat had been increased in the three government medical colleges in Punjab in the last 37 years. In Punjab, there were earlier 360 seats (150 each in Government Medical College at Patiala and Amritsar and 60 seats in Government Medical College, Faridkot). But instead of making any increase, there was a reduction of 10 seats in Faridkot medical college 10 years back. But in private medical colleges in Punjab, two colleges made an increase of 75 seats in the last two years. But the position is different in the neighbouring states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. In Haryana, there were only 100 seats in Government Medical College at Rohtak in 1975 and it was the only government-owned medical college in the state at that time. But at present, there are two government medical colleges with 300 seats. Thus, the seats have been increased three times. Similarly in HP, a new college has been started at Tanda and seats have also been increased in Shimla Medical College from 65 to 100. Even in the new medical college at Tanda, seats have been increased from 50 to100. Thus, the total increase is three-fold. Before GGSMCH was taken over by BFUHS three years back, the condition of this government medical college was so pitiable that in the absence of MCI recognition, uncertainty kept looming large over the its fate. It was in October 2010 that the MCI granted recognition to this medical college. Earlier, in the last 20 years, starting since 1989-90, the MCI issued show-cause notices one after the other to the college, threatening to order the closure of the college for insufficient faculty and poor infrastructure.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:57:28 +0000
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