A Parliamentary Committee has raised serious alarm over the widening disparity in India’s medical education system. In its 167th report, presented to the Rajya Sabha on December 11, the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare highlighted two critical issues: the highly uneven distribution of medical seats across states and the prohibitive cost of education, noting that it feels “as if there are no takers for the poor guardian to get their offspring admitted.”

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The Committee specifically flagged the seat distribution problem, pointing out that while some states are saturated with medical colleges, others fall severely short of the national average of 75 MBBS seats per million population.

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