Medical College Applications to be Online

Updated on: Thursday, August 27, 2015

Applicants and colleges wish to increase the seat capacity in existing MBBS courses or setting up new medical colleges will now have to compulsorily file applications online. The Union Health Ministry aims at making the entire process more transparent. However, the existing manual submission of applications will also continue along with the online mode, which will be an "add-on procedure".

According to an official statement issued,online application procedure comes compulsorily into effect from August 1, 2015. The Health Ministry had issued a public notice regarding this in the first week of this month. The process was just the starting towards the online route. Apart from this various other processes are proposed to be automated in the next one year create more transparency.

Applicants or colleges willing to fill an application for the purpose of establishment of new medical colleges or increase intake capacity of MBBS seats will have to visit the Health Ministry's website and go to the link of medical education (online application system). They will have to undergo a one-time registration using a valid E-mail address, login, read and accept terms of online application and then fill up the columns of the application which are enabled. The aspirants will also need to upload a scanned copy of essential certificates and demand draft, upload the application and they'll get acknowledgement of the online application.

The applicants has to file a manual copy of the complete application as prescribed by the Medical Council of India (MCI) regulations, along with all original valid documents.

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