<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 29.3333px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 37.3333px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">The Health Ministry has barred 82 medical colleges in the country from giving admissions to students for the academic session 2018-19, based on the recommendation of the Medical Council of India (MCI).</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 29.3333px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><br />''</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 29.3333px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 37.3333px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">The MCI pointed out various deficiencies such as inadequate infrastructure, faculty and resources during its inspections of these colleges. Official sources said, the order of banning 82 medical colleges – 70 private and 12 government – means more than 10,000 MBBS seats, of the total 64,000 available, will be blocked.</span></p>