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CIC 2016: Medical colleges must list excess admissions

Quick Reply: In an order dated 1 April 2016, the Central Information Commission held that it is in public interest and in the interest of thousands of meritorious students that the Central Government and the then Medical Council of India (MCI) direct medical colleges to furnish the list of students admitted in excess of admission capacity for every academic session, and then act on it. The MCI no longer exists — it was replaced by the National Medical Commission (NMC) in September 2020, so read this order as history, not as today's route.

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In CIC/YA/C/2015/900420, dated 1 April 2016, the Central Information Commission held that it is in public interest and in the interest of thousands of meritorious students that the Central Government and the Medical Council of India (MCI) should direct the medical colleges to furnish the list of students admitted in excess of admission capacity for every academic session to the MCI, and then take immediate appropriate action as laid down in sections 8 and 9 of the Medical Council of India (Criteria for Identification of Students Admitted in Excess of Admission Capacity of Medical Colleges) Regulations, 1997.

What this means today: That direction belongs to the MCI era. The National Medical Commission Act, 2019, brought into force in September 2020, repealed the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 and dissolved the MCI through section 60, replacing it with the National Medical Commission (NMC). The CIC's reasoning still carries weight — the identity of students admitted over and above the sanctioned intake remains a matter of public interest that citizens can ask about under the RTI Act — but the excess-admissions disclosure logic now runs under NMC regulations, so the regulator to address today is the NMC, not the MCI.

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