India’s medical classrooms are fuller than ever. In a single burst in October 2025, the National Medical Commission approved a fresh lot of 10,650 MBBS seats and 41 new medical colleges, taking the nation’s total to about 1,37,600 seats across roughly 816 colleges. That is the biggest single-year push India has seen for undergraduate medical intake.

But the longer arc matters too. A Rajya Sabha reply shows MBBS seats jumped from about 51,348 in 2013–14 to 1,18,137 in 2024–25 — roughly double the colleges and more than double the medical seats over a decade.

That rapid growth explains the recent headlines, but it doesn’t change the daily reality. Competition remains brutal for students looking to land a sought-after government medical college seat.

Why?

The answer is part numbers and pa

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