The decision in this regard taken by the Medical Council of India has been accepted by the Union Health Ministry and has been conveyed to the Supreme Court on Friday bringing huge relief to lakhs of aspiring doctors.
Under the new system, there will be just one entrance test each for MBBS and MD courses offered by all the 271 medical colleges, 138 government-run and 133 under private management institutes which together account for 31,000 MBBS seats and over 11,000 MD seats.
Earlier, students wanting to take up pursue medical courses had to appear in several entrance tests and face stiff hurdles like clash of entrance exam dates and long journeys to distant places for counselling for allotment of seats.
It may be mentioned that Simran Jain, an MBBS aspirant had filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking the court's intervention for creation of a single window system for admissions.
The apex court had expressed its concern over the sorry state of affairs of some private medical colleges and their admission process had come for some serious scrutiny in the apex court.
In 2009, the Court had even asked the then Director General of Health Services to look into allegations of malpractices in admissions into some Government medical colleges in various states. (Agencies)
