AP: Three private medical colleges being probed for fraudulently increasing seats

Due to the ongoing probe, the university has to redo the process of counselling including allottment of seats to students in colleges, based on their preference and rank.

Dr YSR University of Health Sciences, the supervising authority for medical education in Andhra Pradesh, has initiated an enquiry against three private medical colleges for allegedly producing fake permission letters from the National Medical Council (NMC) to raise the number of medical seats, an official said.

Vice-chancellor of the university Korukonda Babji said that three medical colleges, GSL Medical College, Rajamahendravaram; Maharajah Institute of Medical Sciences (MIMS), Vizianagaram; and Shantiram Medical College, Nandyala, had indulged in this fraudulent practice, as reported by The Print.

“We called the principals of the three colleges and asked them to give their explanations. And we started the enquiry,” said Babji.

The medical university initially accepted the Letters of Permission (LoP), mistaking them to be genuinely issued by the NMC and allotted the enhanced medical seats, but had to annul them on receiving directions from the medical council that they were fake, added Babji.

He highlighted the case of GSL Medical College which claimed to have obtained permission to the number of raise MD radio diagnosis seats from 10 to 24.

“We have received an LoP for 24 (seats). We have accepted and now the NMC says that it is fake. ‘Instead of 10, you are taking 24; we have not enhanced.’ We received a letter from NMC (saying) that the letter is fake,” he said, and added that he did not have the specifics on the number of seats fraudulently increased by the other two colleges.

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