New Delhi: Bringing much disappointment on wasted seats, the Union Minister of State for Health recently informed that 7661 seats including 273 MBBS, 4614 PG Medical, 2774 BDS seats were lying vacant in the previous academic year 2019-20. Besides, in the year 2018-19, over 274 MBBS, 4002 PG Medical, 3317 seats were vacant.
The information to this effect was recently shared in a Rajya Sabha session when Shri Shamsher Singh Dullo asked the Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoS Health) about the details of vacant seats, State-wise and year-wise.
The minister presented the data in his reply before the parliament members. As per the information provided by the National Medical Commission (NMC), and the Dental Council of India (DCI), the State-wise details of seats vacant in MBBS, PG medical courses and BDS for the year 2018-19 and 2019-20 are as follows:
For MBBS course:
In the 2018-19 academic session, over 274 seats from the MBBS course left unfilled. the maximum number of vacant seats were from the state of Madhya Pradesh with over 149 MBBS seats followed by Telangana with 75 seats. 16 MBBS seats were vacant from Bihar and 4 from Delhi.
Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Orissa and Tripura had 2 MBBS seats vacant that year. Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab had 3 lying around.
The states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Rajasthan, UP and West Bengal has only 1 seat left vacant.
Meanwhile, there were no seats vacant from the states and UTs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Dadar and Nagar Haveli, Goa, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, Puducherry, Sikkim and Tamil Nadu.
The next academic year of 2019-20 saw over 273 seats lying around vacant across the country.
Shockingly, the maximum seats were vacant from Jharkhand courting to the total of 114 while there were no seats vacant the previous year. The second came J&K with 55 MBBS seats lying vacant.
Orissa had 21 MBBS seats unfilled while Tamil Nadu had 10 and West Bengal and Maharashtra had 9 each. Telangana followed with over 8 vacant MBBS seats and Haryana with 7.
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, both had 6 seats left to be filled that year followed by Gujarat and Rajasthan with 5 seats each. The states of UP and Bihar had 4 seats vacant while 2 were unfilled in Delhi and MP.
Assam, Chandigarh, Kerala, Punjab, Manipur and Tripura had only 1 seat left while there were no seats vacant from the states of Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Puducherry, Sikkim, Uttrakhand and Andaman and Nicobar Isalnds.
For PG Medical Courses:
4,002 PG Medical seats were lying vacant in the year 2018-19; the maximum being in the states of Karnataka (563), Maharashtra (520), Tamil Nadu (477), Gujarat (343), Andhra Pradesh (303).
The list is followed by UP with 256 PG medical seats lying vacant, Delhi with 231 seats, Rajasthan with 164, Haryana with 145, West Bengal with 141 seats. Kerala had 115 PG medical seats unfilled that year.
Bihar had 94 followed by Odisha at 88 unfilled seats. 84 PG medical seats were vacant from Puducherry and Assam. JnK stood at 41, Telangana at 53, Uttrakhand at 52, Jharkhand at 35 and Goa at 21 unfilled PG medical seats.
Chandigarh had 8, Chhattisgarh had 3, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur and MP had 14, Meghalaya had 9 and Sikkim had 8 seats vacant. No seats were left unfilled from the state of Tripura.
Coming to the next academic session of 2019-2020, a whopping number of 4614 PG medical seats found no students.
A massive 1723 PG medical seats were vacant from the state of Maharashtra followed by Karnatak with 530, Delhi with dripping down to 310.
West Bengal had 268, UP had 237, Gujarat had 230, Tamil Nadu had 160, Andhra Pradesh had 149, Bihar had 125 and MP had 139 seats unfilled that year.
99 seats were vacant from Telangana, 104 from Rajasthan, 87 from Odisha, 57 from Punjab, 46 from Puducherry, 73 from Haryana and 42 from Himachal Pradesh.
Meanwhile, the states of Assam had 18, Chandigarh had 11, Chhattisgarh had 12, Goa had 20, Kerala had 50, Manipur had 23, Uttrakhand had 28 PG medical seats vacant.
Meghalaya had only 6 seats left followed by Tripura and Sikkim with 4 and 3 seats respectively.
There were no states with full allotment this academic session of 2019-20.
For BDS Course:
3317 BDS seats were lying vacant in the year 2018-19. The maximum coming down to 578 from MP followed by UP with 564 and Tamil Nadu with 484 BDS seats lying vacant.
320 seats left unfilled from Karnataka dropping down to 279 from Haryana, 224 from Rajasthan, 190 from Punjab, 145 from Gujarat and 107 from Chhattisgarh.
89 seats are reported to have had been vacant from Puducherry followed by 82 from Jharkhand, 60 from Andhra Pradesh, 46 each from Bihar and Maharashtra.
The list goes down to Daman & DIU with 31 vacant UG Dental seats that year followed by JnK with 22, Himachal with 19, Uttarakhand and Assam with 11 each, Telangana with 4 seats and Kerala with 2.
Only 1 seat each was left from the states of Manipur, Odisha and West Bengal. No seats were vacant from Goa, Delhi and Chandigarh.
The next academic session saw a decrease in the number of vacant seats with a total of 2774.
The maximum seats were vacant from the state of UP with 528 followed by MP with 329, Punjab with 324 and Karnataka with 321 BDS seats.
The list then followed by Haryana with 206, Maharashtra with 155, Gujarat with 126, Tamil Nadu with 121, Chhattisgarh with 114, Rajasthan with 104 vacant BDS seats.
67 seats were vacant at Assam, 62 at Odisha, 43 at Puducherry, 32 at Uttrakhand, 29 at Daman and Diu, 21 at Telangana that year.
Andhra Pradesh and Bihar had 15 seats each unfilled that session. Delhi had 14 seats lying vacant.
JnK had Kerala had 3 seats vacant each while Chandigarh and West Bengal had only 1 seat left. No seats were lect from Goa and Manipur.
As per the provisions of the Regulations on Graduate Medical Education and Post Graduate Medical Education,the Common Counseling for admission to Central Educational Institutions, All India Quota seats in Government Medical Colleges and Deemed Universities is conducted by the Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India and the respective State Government conducts Common Counseling for admission to State Quota seats in Government Medical College and all the seats of Private Medical Colleges.
The minister further replying to the question of whether large numbers of seats in PG/ MBBS/BDS courses in Government/ Private colleges/Deemed Universities are left vacant across India especially in the State of Punjab this year due to the high fee structure allowed by the Government, informed, "in the case of Government medical colleges, the respective State Governments are responsible for fixation of fee, and in the case of private unaided medical colleges, the fee structure is decided by the Committee set up by the respective State Government under the Chairmanship of a retired High Court Judge in pursuance of the directions of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India."
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has been constituted with effect from 25th September 2020. The NMC Act, 2019 empowers the NMC to frame guidelines for the determination of fees and all other charges in respect of 50% of seats in private medical institutions and deemed to be Universities. The uniform entrance examination namely the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Common Counseling for admission to all UnderGraduate and PostGraduate medical courses across the country ensures transparent admissions on merit, he added.
On the steps proposed by the Government to help the economically weaker sections of society so that they are not deprived of higher education in medical profession, he said, "In accordance with the provisions of the Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act, 2019, there is 10% reservation for the Economically Weaker Section of the Society (EWS) in UG and PG medical/dental courses."
The details of vacant MBBS seats State-wise and Year-wise for the last Two Years.
Vacant Seats
Sl. No.
State
2018-19
2019-20
1
Andaman Nicobar Islands
0
0
2
Andhra Pradesh
2
6
3
Arunachal Praresh
0
0
4
Assam
1
1
5
Bihar
16
4
6
Chandigarh
2
1
7
Chhattisgarh
2
0
8
D& N Haveli
0
0
9
Delhi
4
2
10
Goa
0
0
11
Gujarat
0
5
12
Haryana
1
7
13
Himachal Pradesh
1
0
14
Jammu & Kashmir
3
55
15
Jharkhand
0
114
16
Karnataka
2
6
17
Kerala
1
1
18
Madhya Pradesh
149
2
19
Maharashtra
1
9
20
Manipur
0
1
21
Meghalaya
0
0
22
Mizoram
1
0
23
Orissa
2
21
24
Pondicherry
0
0
25
Punjab
3
1
26
Rajasthan
1
5
27
Sikkim
0
0
28
Tamil Nadu
0
10
29
Telangana
75
8
30
Tripura
2
1
31
Uttarakhand
3
0
32
Uttar Pradesh
1
4
33
West Bengal
1
9
TOTAL
274
273
The details of vacant PG seats State-wise and Year-wise for the last Two Years.
Vacant Seats
Sl. No.
State
2018-19
2019-20
1
Andhra Pradesh
303
149
2
Assam
84
18
3
Bihar
94
125
4
Chandigarh
8
11
5
Chhattisgarh
3
12
6
Delhi
231
310
7
Goa
21
20
8
Gujarat
343
230
9
Haryana
145
73
10
Himachal Pradesh
14
42
11
Jammu & Kashmir
41
22
12
Jharkhand
35
38
13
Karnataka
563
530
14
Kerala
115
50
15
Madhya Pradesh
14
139
16
Maharashtra
520
1723
17
Manipur
14
23
18
Meghalaya
9
6
19
Orissa
88
87
20
Pondicherry
84
46
21
Punjab
122
57
22
Rajasthan
164
104
23
Sikkim
8
3
24
Tamil Nadu
477
160
25
Telangana
53
99
26
Tripura
0
4
27
Uttarakhand
52
28
28
Uttar Pradesh
256
237
29
West Bengal
141
268
TOTAL
4002
4614
BDS Admission for the academic session 2018-19
Sl. No.
State
PERMITTED SEATS
ADMITTED SEATS
VACANT SEATS
1
Andhra Pradesh
1440
1380
60
2
Assam
140
129
11
3
Bihar
280
234
46
4
Chandigarh
100
100
0
5
Chhattisgarh
600
493
107
6
Daman & DIU
100
69
31
7
Delhi
140
140
0
8
Goa
40
40
0
9
Gujarat
1240
1095
145
10
Haryana
900
621
279
11
Himachal Pradesh
340
321
19
12
Jammu & Kashmir
200
178
22
13
Jharkhand
350
268
82
14
Karnataka
3440
3120
320
15
Kerala
1920
1918
2
16
Madhya Pradesh
1370
792
578
17
Maharashtra
3410
3364
46
18
Manipur
100
99
1
19
Orissa
350
349
1
20
Pondicherry
340
251
89
21
Punjab
1230
1040
190
22
Rajasthan
1400
1176
224
23
Tamil Nadu
2860
2376
484
24
Telangana
1140
1136
4
25
Uttarakhand
200
189
11
26
Uttar Pradesh
2490
1926
564
27
West Bengal
500
499
1
TOTAL
26620
23303
3317
BDS Admission for the academic session 2019-20
Sl.
No.
State
PERMITTED SEATS
ADMITTED SEATS
VACANT SEATS
1
Andhra Pradesh
1440
1425
15
2
Assam
176
109
67
3
Bihar
240
225
15
4
Chandigarh
100
99
1
5
Chhattisgarh
600
486
114
6
Daman & DIU
100
71
29
7
Delhi
150
136
14
8
Goa
50
50
0
9
Gujarat
1340
1214
126
10
Haryana
950
744
206
11
Himachal Pradesh
355
317
38
12
Jammu & Kashmir
226
223
3
13
Jharkhand
363
261
102
14
Karnataka
3453
3132
321
15
Kerala
1970
1967
3
16
Madhya Pradesh
1283
954
329
17
Maharashtra
3444
3289
155
18
Manipur
100
100
0
19
Orissa
363
301
62
20
Pondicherry
340
297
43
21
Punjab
1230
906
324
22
Rajasthan
1410
1306
104
23
Tamil Nadu
2873
2752
121
24
Telangana
1140
1119
21
25
Uttarakhand
200
168
32
26
Uttar Pradesh
2503
1975
528
27
West Bengal
550
549
1
TOTAL
26949
24175
2774