100 Additional Seats For Vidarbha - Supreme Court's IGGMC, GMC Additional Seats 2013

100 Additional Seats For Vidarbha - Supreme Court's  IGGMC, GMC Additional Seats 2013 

MONDAY turned to be a memorable day for people of Vidarbha and especially for those aspiring to become doctor, thanks to a bitter legal battle coming to an liap-py end before the Apex Court.

As per Supreme Court's directions, there will be additional 50 MBBS seats each in Indira Gandhi Government Medical College (IGGMC) and Akola Government Medical College (GMC) from the current academic year itself. Supreme Court of India on Monday dismissed the special leave petition filed by Medical Council of India (MCI) and directed it to immediately sanction 100 additional seats for these two-government run hospitals and also extended admission date as a very special case.

MCI had challenged order of Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court dated August 28, directing it (o sympathetically consider case of IGGMC and Akola GMC for grant of 50 additional seats each. Out of these additional 100 MBBS seats, a total 70 scats will go to students from Vidarhha. But instead of taking sympathetic view as desired by the High Court. MCI had refused to grant additional intake and instead challenged the order before Supreme Court.

The High Court division bench consisting of Justice Bhushan Gavai and Justice Z A Haq. in an order passed on August 28, had directed Maharashtra Chief Secretary to furnish a concrete undertaking to MCI about removal of deficiency of IGGMC and completion of its modernisation within time-bound manner. About Akola GMC. there was shortfall of 18 days for completion of 10 years. As one time measure, the Union Health Ministry has decided to permit 50 additional seats to all Government-run medical colleges which are more than 10 years old and. due to sheer apathy of Maharashtra Government, the region had lost the precious medical seats.