Admissions for dental and MBBS courses to begin today

Admissions for dental and MBBS courses to begin today

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Ahmedabad:17.11.2021

The online registrations for medical, dental, homeopathic and ayurveda seats will begin from November 17. Presently, there are 30 medical colleges in the state with 5,550 MBBS seats, 12 dental colleges with 1,255 seats, 33 Ayurveda colleges with 2,242 seats and 36 colleges with a total capacity of 3,710 seats.

In all, there are 12,707 seats for which the Admission Committee for Professional Under Graduate Medical Educational Courses (ACPUGMEC) will undertake the admission process this year.

Gujarat government is working on a plan to ensure that there is one medical college in every district of the state. For this, the department will have to set up about seven additional medical colleges in districts that do not have a single college, said sources.

The proposal is in lines with the Centre’s vision to have one college in every district of the country over the next five years.

The state government is also planning to set up eight new medical colleges in the state in the next two years. They will add 1,200 MBBS seats, representing about 21% of the total number of prevailing seats in Gujarat, said sources in the state’ health department.

The new medical colleges in Morbi, Godhra and Porbander are expected to start in the 2021-22 academic year. The inspection process by National Medical Commission (NMC) has been completed.

In the next academic year, the state health department aims to start new medical colleges in Rajpipala, Navsari, Jam Khambhaliya, Botad and Veraval.