Lucknow: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has granted permission to Uttar Pradesh to start admission to the Autonomous State Medical College, Sonbhadra from the current academic session. With the inclusion of the medical college at Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh has now 13 medical colleges. The health ministry issued the order which said “After due examination of the documents and submissions made by the appellant, the central government has decided to direct the National Medical Commission to issue Letter of Permission to the Autonomous State Medical College, Sonbhadra, for starting with 100 MBBS seats for 2024- 25.”
The seats will be available in present and next round of counselling. This takes number of MBBS seats in UP to 11, 300. The director general medical education had filed an appeal with the Union health ministry to review the decision denying permission to the said college. After first inspection of the college and based on the inspection report dated June 24, a letter of disapproval came in July citing deficiency of teaching faculty tutors/residents/demonstrators and faculty. First appeal and then the second appeal were filed against the order dated July 31 passed by the National Medical Commission.