High Court allows three medical colleges to admit more students

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has directed the Medical Council of India on Thursday to grant an increase in the intake of students from 100 to 150 to three private medical colleges.

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 rejecting their plea to increase their intake in the MBBS course.

Justice Gambhir said that the petitioners before this court are seeking increase in additional intake and they had applied within the stipulated time as prescribed in the regulations.

The court said that the MCI is accordingly directed 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.