MEDI NEWS:

Only state-run bodies, universities and private religious or charitable trusts were allowed to start medical colleges until now.

Now, The Medical Council of India (MCI), has allowed hospital chains such as Fortis Healthcare , Max Healthcare and Apollo Hospitals to set up medical colleges.

The MCI has also relaxed the land requirement norms for companies planning to set up medical colleges in large cities.
India currently has an acute shortage of MBBSseats in north eastern and north indian and east indian states and hundreds of medical graduates go overseas to pursue higher education as current capacity was hardly about 13,500 post-gradutae medical seats.now the good news is almost 10,000 PG seats are going to created with in two years.

Earlier this week, India's cabinet approved a proposal to allow foreign universities to set up local campuses, part of long-standing plan to reform the education sector. The move is expected to reduce the flow of Indian students abroad, with tens of thousands of students heading to universities in the United States, Britain and Australia every year.