With this, Karnataka has emerged as the state with the highest number of medical seats in the country.
This increase will take the total number of MBBS seats in 78 colleges in the State to 13,999
Draft regulations tighten eligibility norms as regulator seeks to ensure students are admitted only to fully functional institutions; signals a change in approach as medical seats grow 167% over the last decade
Their retirement age currently is 63 while it is 70 in private medical colleges; out of 800 sanctioned professor posts in 17 government medical colleges across the State, around 200 remain vacant, which is affecting the quality of medical education, says Satya Kumar Yadav