In a recent advisory issued in compliance with directions from the Supreme Court, the NMC has urged students to independently verify a medical college’s approval status, permitted student intake, and admission permissions for the relevant academic year before seeking admission or making any payment.
The directions came in the context of a reported instance of a purported fake medical college operating from a farmhouse and claiming to offer various courses. The advisory follows the Supreme Court taking cognisance of the issue in Ayesha Jain v. Amity University, Noida & Ors. , an ongoing case in which the Court directed regulatory bodies, including the NMC, to caution students and parents against dealing with unauthorised educational institutions. The Commission has clarified that a medical college’s presence in an official list, or its previous operation, does not automatically establish that it has permission to admit students in subsequent academic years. Candidates must check the approval granted for the particular year and the number of seats sanctioned through official NMC and Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) records. Each statutory requirement must be independently satisfied.
Highlighting the importance of distinguishing between regulatory approvals, the NMC said affiliation, registration or recognition granted by one authority for a particular purpose should not be construed as permission from the Commission to conduct an MBBS course.
