July 1, 2014
WB CM vows to restore cancelled medical seats in the State
West Bengal Chief Minister Ms. MamataBanerjee on Monday said seats that were recently slashed by the Medical Councilof India (MCI) owing to lack of proper infrastructure in the state's medicalcolleges will be restored.
“The MCI had cancelled 1,000 medical seatsin Bengal. We succeeded in restoring 400 of them. We will get back the rest,”she said at an official function here. The number of seats last year was around2,400 and this year only 1,755 are available.
Ms. Banerjee said as many as 131 industrialtraining institutes (ITIs) and 75 polytechnic colleges are on the anvil. Inaddition, she also highlighted the success of the state-run coaching centresfor Indian Administrative Services (IAS) exam.
“We started IAS coaching centre. Two of ourstudents became successful in the IAS (civil services) examination,” she said.
