Moves by the regulatory body the [b]Medical Council of India (MCI)[/b] to scrap almost a third of medical degree places across the country in order to improve the quality of medical education have thrown this year’s admissions into disarray. In early June, the MCI withdrew permission for 15,890 of the 49,950 MBBS undergraduate medical degree seats in medical colleges, saying the institutions had failed to maintain the minimum infrastructure requirements, or had poor faculty-to-student ratios.
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