Chennai: The Union government has accorded permission to Tamilnadu to admit 850 students to undergraduate courses in seven new medical colleges this academic year.
According to Health Minister M Subramanian, this will take the total MBBS seats in the State to 4,300.
He said the Centre after reviewing the status of the projects, gave its consent to admit 850 students to the proposed colleges in Namakkal, Tiruppur, Ramanathapuram, Thiruvallur.
For the remaining colleges, minor works are going on and once they get completed the government would approach the Centre to give its approval to admit 1,650 students in all the 11 government run medical colleges, the Minister added.
‘We will rectify all minor deficiencies in 10-15 days. We expect to get approval for the remaining number of seats by October-end after the team conducts a re-inspection,’ he said.