450 more MBBS seats in Delhi from 2013!

Delhi Government is planning to add three more medical colleges to the city - one each to Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital, Ambedkar Hospital, and an upcoming hospital in Dwarka - in next two years. Each of these medical college will add 150 undergraduate medical seats, making it a total of 450 more MBBS seats in Delhi to start admitting students from 2013.

Currently, there are five government medical colleges in Delhi:

1. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
2. Vardhman Mahavir Medical College
3. University College of Medical Sciences
4. Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC)
5. Lady Hardinge Medical College

Together, these offer 750 MBBS seats to students, for which about two lakh students compete every year. About one lakh students take the AIIMS entrance exam for only 77 undergraduate medical seats that are available. Three more medical colleges are expected to offer some relief to the students opting for the medical stream in the Capital.

Initially, the government was planning to make the new goverment colleges independent like MAMC Dental College, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, and Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences but later, decided to put them under a jurisdiction of a non-profit society which will supervise construction and functioning of these colleges.

The DDU Hospital will also have a hostel and a Nursing College within the campus.

Source: Ruchi Shrimali (Shiskha Team)