Overview
- The National Medical Commission’s MARB withdrew SMVDIME’s Letter of Permission with immediate effect after a January 2 surprise inspection found non-compliance with minimum standards.
- Assessors reported major shortfalls, including a 39% deficit in teaching faculty, a 65% shortfall in tutors and residents, OPD attendance of 182 against the required 400, bed occupancy at 45% versus 80%, and missing or inadequate labs, libraries and operation theatres.
- All MBBS students admitted for 2025–26 will be accommodated over and above sanctioned intake as supernumerary seats in other recognised medical colleges in Jammu and Kashmir, with UT authorities tasked to execute the transfers.
- The regulator said it will invoke the institute’s performance bank guarantee as a consequence of the documented non-compliance.
- The decision follows weeks of protests over the admission list—reports said 42 of 50 students were Kashmiri Muslims—with BJP leaders welcoming the move and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah defending merit and urging closure of the college and relocation of students.