New Delhi: The Delhi High Court (HC) has granted permission to three more private medical colleges for enrolling more number of students. The court has directed the Medical Council of India (MCI) to grant an increase in the intake of students from 100 to 150 to three private medical colleges.
As per sources, Justice Kailash Gambhir was hearing a petition of three medical colleges - Teerthanker Mahaveer Institute of Management and Technology, Rama Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, and School of Medical Sciences and Research, Sharda University. The private colleges had challenged an MCI order refusing their plea to increase their intake in the MBBS course.
In addition, the court justified its decision by saying that a developing country like India needed more doctors in order to improve the health facilities. The Justice also said that India ranked 67th in the list of 133 developing countries with the doctor-population ratio at 1:1,700 as compared to the world ratio of 1.5:1,000.
Besides, the court said that the MCI has accordingly ordered to grant increase in the additional intake of students from 100 to 150 to all these petitioner institutes subject to, however, the condition that these petitioners fulfill all other requirements and the criteria laid down in the regulations.
