Three New Medical Colleges in Andhra Pradesh: 600Additional Medical Seats Sanctioned
Medical Council of India allotted three new medical colleges to Andhra Pradesh. Two of these are government colleges and one is a private college. 150 seats were sanctioned for Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam and Nellore government medical colleges. 150 seats are also sanctioned for Viswabharati medical college in Kurnool which is a private medical college.
Hyderabad: Seats were increased in some government and private medical colleges also in Andhra Pradesh. Narayana college in Nellore which presently has 150 seats is increased to 250. GSL college in Rajahmundry also sanctioned 50 additional seats. Over all 600 MBBS seats are sanctioned for Andhra Pradesh – 300 in government colleges and 300 seats in private medical colleges.
100 seats were cancelled in RIMS college, Ongole recently which are sanctioned again. Recently MCI also rejected to continue the 50 additional seats that were increased in 2013 in Sri Venkateswara government medical college in Tirupati and Rangaraya medical college in Tirupati. But MCI permitted to continue these seats. Andhra Pradesh Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas expressed his happiness over getting sanctioned 600 new medical college seats.
MCI cancelled admission to 100 MBBS seats in Nizamabad government medical college recently as there were no infrastructure but now MCI gave permission to these seats. An additional 50 seats were also allocated to Osmania medical college, Telangana.
MBBS admission is going to be held combinedly in both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for ten years. increased number of medical seats in Andhra Pradesh is thus going to benefit students of both the states. With the addition of new seats, there are 5000 seats in total.
Total of 500 seats were lost by both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states as MCI cancelled these seats due to lack of facilities in eight medical colleges. Hundred seats were cancelled in Nizamabad medical college, 50 seats in Gandhi medical college in Telangana. Guntur medical college, AMC-Visakhapatnam, Rangaraya college-Kakinada, Siddhartha medical college-Vijayawada and SV college in Tirupati lost 50 seats each. 100 seats were cancelled in RIMS, Ongole. Among these 350 are now given permission.
Private medical colleges is Andhra Pradesh are demanding for uniform fee structure for all seats. Another demand of the medical colleges in private sector is special admission test. representatives of private medical colleges had a meeting with Chandrababu Naidu but a decision is yet to be taken. Separate admission test for admission into the private medical colleges may not be held this year.
