The National Medical Commission (NMC) has granted conditional renewal and recognition to 22 government medical colleges in Karnataka for the academic year 2025-26, which had earlier been issued show-cause notices for not meeting the parameters, including infrastructure and faculty requirements.
The colleges have been given four months to comply, but no penalty has been imposed on any of them this year. They have been warned that admissions will be restricted for the next academic year if the system is not rectified.
In the year 2024-25, the NMC had imposed a penalty in the range of ₹2 lakh to ₹15 lakh on 16 government medical colleges, which had failed to meet the required norms.
Periodic verification
The NMC periodically asks all medical colleges having a valid letter of permission (LoP) for medical course admissions to submit and upload all details and documents on its portal as part of their annual declaration. Through a public notice on April 25, the commission had also asked colleges to furnish information on minor operation theatres and major operation theatres.
