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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Medical education in India needs an urgent cure: Student evacuation in Ukraine highlights inadequacies and shortages -Seema Sachdeva

Medical education in India needs an urgent cure: Student evacuation in Ukraine highlights inadequacies and shortages -Seema Sachdeva

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published Published on Mar 6, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 7, 2022

-The Tribune

“WHAT AFTER THIS?” That was the only thought on the mind of third-year MBBS student Tanishq Sharma from Delhi as he returned safely from Ukraine after the country was attacked by Russia. Tanishq had scored 95 per cent marks in Class 12, but his rank in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) wasn’t good enough to get him admission in a government college in India. “The fee in most private colleges in India is between Rs70 lakh and Rs1.5 crore, whereas the same course can be done abroad for Rs20 lakh to Rs30 lakh,” he says. Another Indian student, Rubal Thakur of Shimla, who had barely three months of the six-year MBBS course left to be completed, shudders to think about the logistics of completing the course or how much he’ll have to spend more to get a degree here. His only hope is that the Indian government will make a special allowance and help them complete their degree in India. The uncertainty of the situation is more biting than the extreme conditions he endured to reach Romania by foot from his university.

The nearly 20,000 students who got stuck in the war-torn country has highlighted the inconvenient reality of expensive private medical education in India.

That various governments have failed to give enough attention to streams other than medical and non-medical fields is evident from the increasing number of students appearing in the NEET-UG (2021) as well as JEE Mains each year.

The figures of the Ministry of Education state that for a total of 84,649 MBBS seats, as many as 16,14,777 candidates registered for the NEET (UG) examination in 2021. Of these, 8,70,074 qualified. Thus, 90 per cent of the students who qualified the test, calculated on a percentile basis, won’t get a seat. The limited number of seats makes it difficult for all the qualified students to study the subject. Of the 562 medical colleges in India, 286 are government and the rest private. While education in government colleges is highly subsidised, the fee of the MBBS course in private colleges varies. In Punjab, private medical education is fairly regulated by the state government, but the same cannot be said of many other states.

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The Tribune, 6 March, 2022, https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/features/medical-education-in-india-needs-an-urgent-cure-student-evacuation-in-ukraine-highlights-inadequacies-and-shortages-375416?fbclid=IwAR0t5aOh0zMQjvtvHkGd1QVWs-RhYD4Kik0uehaKbBBQNlxb_Ype


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