Medical Council of India (MCI) has announced to increase the seat capacity for PG Medical students by 2,000 from this year. This comes as good news for students who are willing to pursue a Post-Graduation course home country instead of going abroad. The admission will commence from the comming academic session of May 2010. All the additional seats will be distributed among the Medical colleges of the states of Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and West Bengal. Including the Private Medical colleges those which will pass MCI inspection test.

Till date before expansion India has only 14,250 seats available for the various PG Medical streams. After sanctioning of the expansion from the Government, this capacity will increase up to 16,500. This seems to be a great relief for the medical students. The State Govt. of Maharashtra officially informed the MCI that in the next couple of years it will start PG courses in those Medical Colleges which started in 2001 at Kolhapur, Akola and Latur in 2002. Once, PG courses started in these colleges then India probably has the highest number of seats in Medical.