Rajasthan govt likely to start admission to four new medical colleges from next session

The Rajasthan government is trying to start the admission process to medical colleges in Ganganagar, Chittorgarh, Sirohi and Dholpur districts from the new academic session.

In Rajasthan, a meeting of the empowered committee of the Medical Education Department was held yesterday under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Usha Sharma. An official has said that the admission process to four new medical colleges in Rajasthan is expected to start from the new academic session.

Principal Secretary of the department, Vaibhav Galriya, said during the meeting that the government is making efforts to start the process of admission to medical colleges in Ganganagar, Chittorgarh, Sirohi and Dholpur districts from the new academic session.

Student intake capacity is 100 each

He said in a statement that all these four colleges have 100 seats each. The educational buildings, hostels for residents, nurses and interns, teachers’ residences and sports ground are being constructed in the medical colleges.

"Most of the work has been completed and efforts are being made to get the remaining work completed soon. At present, 15 government and eight private medical colleges are functioning in the state, 16 government medical colleges are in the process of construction," said Galriya, as reported by NDTV.

Rajasthan has a total of 2,830 MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) seats across the medical colleges in the state. Chief Secretary Sharma directed officials of the concerned department to complete all facilities and necessary work in the new medical colleges at the earliest.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had recently said that the state and Central government must jointly work to increase the number of medical colleges in India.

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