Srinagar, Oct 14: The anatomy of Jammu and Kashmir’s uneven medical leap reveals that Kashmir’s white coats have multiplied threefold in seven years, from 500 in 2018 to 1525 in 2025, yet the gaps persist.

Over the past two years, J&K saw a significant expansion in its MBBS seats, along with new medical colleges getting operational. From approximately 1100 seats in the academic year 2023-24 to 1525 in 2025-26, the overall increase of around 425 seats is the best news for the aspirants here.

However, the latest approvals are considerably short of the projected enhancement, underlining J&K’s unaddressed shortfalls of infrastructure and faculty in its institutions of medical education.

In 2018, J&K had only 500 MBBS seats, mostly in its two Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) in Srinagar an

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