Overview
- The National Medical Commission’s Medical Assessment and Rating Board withdrew the Letter of Permission for SMVDIME’s 50-seat MBBS course for 2025–26 with immediate effect.
- An unannounced assessment on 2 January found inadequate infrastructure, shortages of qualified teaching staff and resident doctors, and insufficient clinical material, according to the NMC.
- All 50 enrolled students will be accommodated as supernumerary seats in other recognised medical colleges within Jammu and Kashmir, to be arranged by the UT’s designated authorities.
- The inaugural admission list included 42 Muslim students and one Sikh, prompting weeks of protests by the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Sangarsh Samiti and allied groups that demanded Hindu-only or minority-institution preferences.
- BJP leaders welcomed the withdrawal as a quality measure, while Chief Minister Omar Abdullah defended merit-based admissions and then urged closure to safeguard students as NC and others called the loss a setback for Jammu.