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New Delhi: The National Medical Commission’s (NMC) Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) has withdrawn the permission given to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence to run an MBBS programme with 50 seats for the 2025–26 academic year. The medical college located in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir received approval to admit 50 MBBS students on September 8, 2025. The teaching activities in the institute reportedly began in November 2025.
However, the approval was withdrawn after an inspection by the medical regulator found serious gaps in meeting the minimum standards required to run a medical college. As per officials, the institute did not meet key norms related to infrastructure, availability of faculty and other essential requirements.
A letter issued by the NMC reads, 'Continuation of the institution under such circumstances would have seriously jeopardised the quality of medical education and adversely affected the academic interests of the students.'
As per NMC, the action was taken after multiple complaints were received against the institute. Based on the inspection findings, MARB concluded that the college was not eligible to admit MBBS students for the upcoming academic session.
Students who have already been admitted for the 2025–26 academic year will not lose their MBBS seats. The NMC has clarified that these students will be shifted to other government medical colleges within Jammu and Kashmir. The relocation will be done by creating supernumerary seats which means additional seats over and above the approved intake of those colleges as per existing rules.
'To safeguard the interests of the students already admitted for the academic year 2025–26, the state or UT authorities have been authorised to accommodate such students in other medical institutions within the Union Territory, as supernumerary seats, in accordance with applicable norms,' NMC's letter read.
After the initial letter of permission was issued, the NMC received several complaints against the institute. These complaints alleged that the college lacked proper infrastructure, sufficient clinical material and qualified full-time teaching staff and resident doctors.
Concerns were also raised about a low number of inpatients and outpatients, poor bed occupancy and other shortcomings. A surprise inspection was conducted to 'verify the veracity of the complaints', following which the commission found that the 'deficiencies were gross and substantial in nature.'
The college was also at the centre of local protests. Some Hindu organisations and residents demanded reservation for Hindu candidates stating that the medical college was built largely using donations from devotees of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine.
Earlier, the NMC had rejected the institute’s request to place all 50 MBBS seats under the All India Quota through the Medical Counselling Committee stating that seat-sharing policies cannot be changed for individual colleges.
The institute had also drawn attention after reports claimed that 43 students from a single community were admitted in the first batch. College authorities however maintained that all admitted students are residents of Jammu and Kashmir.
