Unnecessary restriction

Medical education in India should be the last location for partisan and inter-regional bickering. Raising medical capacity in this country, particularly after a devastating pandemic, should surely be a national priority — one above politics. But a new regulation of the National Medical Commission (NMC), which oversees medical education in the country, has stopped the expansion of the medical college network. New colleges will not be allowed, and existing colleges are no longer allowed to add seats in states that have 100 medical education seats for each million in their population. The reasoning from the NMC is that medical education