In the year 2024-25, the NMC had imposed a penalty in the range of ₹2 lakh to ₹15 lakh on 16 government medical colleges, which had failed to meet the required norms
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The National Medical Commission (NMC) has granted conditional renewal and recognition to 22 government medical colleges in Karnataka for the academic year 2025-26, which had earlier been issued show-cause notices for not meeting the parameters, including infrastructure and faculty requirements.
The colleges have been given four months to comply, but no penalty has been imposed on any of them this year. They have been warned that admissions will be restricted for the next academic year if the system is not rectified.
In the year 2024-25, the NMC had imposed a penalty in the range of ₹2 lakh to ₹15 lakh on 16 government medical colleges, which had failed to meet the required norms.
Periodic verification
The NMC periodically asks all medical colleges having a valid letter of permission (LoP) for medical course admissions to submit and upload all details and documents on its portal as part of their annual declaration. Through a public notice on April 25, the commission had also asked colleges to furnish information on minor operation theatres and major operation theatres.
There are 22 government medical colleges functioning in the State, and these colleges have failed to meet standard parameters, including infrastructure and faculty recruitment. Therefore, the NMC had served show-cause notices to all theses colleges.
This is the first time that such notices have been issued to all government medical colleges, including Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI), which has the best infrastructure and is most sought after by students.
Most of the colleges had replied to the notices with documents. Not satisfied with this, the NMC did not approve the enhancement of 800 medical seats submitted by the Medical Education Department this year. In addition, it did not sanction new colleges for the State.
Speaking to The Hindu, B.L. Sujatha Rathod, director, Directorate of Medical Education, said, “This year, we have been granted conditional renewal and recognition to courses in government medical colleges in the State. We have given a deadline of four months to fulfil the parameters. However, we have not imposed any penalty. If they do not fulfil the norms within the prescribed time frame, we can impose a penalty,” she said.
Submitted proposal
“All government medical colleges have good infrastructure and facilities. However, 30% of the faculty posts in undergraduate (UG) medical courses and 60% in postgraduate (PG) medical courses are vacant. The Department of Medical Education has already submitted a proposal to the Finance Department for filling these posts. But the government has restricted all recruitments till the Justice Nagamohan Das Committee on internal reservation submits its report to the government. Therefore, action will be taken to fill the faculty posts as soon as the internal reservation report is submitted,” Ms. Rathod added.
Published – July 30, 2025 10:23 pm IST
