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Manmohan urged to sanction more medical colleges

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI, OCT. 30. The All-India Medical and Engineering Colleges Association has appealed to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, to sanctionmore medical colleges.

In a memorandumto Dr. Sigh on Friday, the association president, T.D. Naidu, said thatthere were about 300 medical colleges in the country, including government, private and deemed university. Around 35,000 students could enter the course annually.

Every year more than three million students passed out from higher secondary schools, Mr. Naidu said. Of them, at least 25 per cent was interested in pursuing medical education. But only the rich and elite classes were able to compete for the few seats available. The poor students, with exceptions, found it extremely difficult even to think of an admission in a medical college. This position, he said, could be changed if the Government granted permission to open more private medical colleges in the country imposing a strict condition that only merit should be the criterion for admission.

Though the present requirement would be another 1,000 colleges with an intake of 100 seats in each college, a beginning could be made by allowing at least 100 medical colleges from the next academic year.

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