Many of the students don’t know the difference between the two tags given by MCI now NMC to the Seats in Various Medical Colleges.
These two tags are namely ;
1. Permitted
2. Recognised
A “PERMITTED SEAT” is any MBBS or Post Graduation (PG) Degree/ Diploma seat in which the colleges are permitted by the MCI to take admission of students for the allowed course. But , the College or the Institution lacks the recommended infrastructure , facilities or faculties that is required in correspondence to the seat intake by the institution as per the guidelines drafted by MCI.
So, the MCI allocates time to the College or Institution to develop the required necessary infrastructure and facilities . Upon revision if the institution fulfilled the required necessities then MCI labels the seats as “RECOGNISED SEAT“.
Generally , In most of the cases The MCI recognizes the seat within 3 years after making the seat permitted , But if the institute doesn’t have enough faculty, facility or the infrastructure required to meet the standards or norms as stipulated to satisfy MCI inspection done on the institute. If application of recognition is rejected by MCI, institute can again apply for recognition of the seat after improving its facilities and offer for inspection to the MCI. If MCI is satisfied with improvements done by the institute to it’s faculty, facility or the infrastructure on re-inspection, it gives RECOGNISED status to that seat which was earlier PERMITTED.
So , This was the whole theory aspect of the terminologies but Does it impacts the students in any way ? Let us understand that below with context.
Q. Difference between Permitted seat to that of a Recognised seat ??
Let’s know that , If a student has completed his/her UG/PG in a “MCI Permitted Seat” but not a MCI recognised seat , he/she can only practice in the state in which the institute is located whereas the student passing out on a “MCI Recognised Seat” is allowed to practice anywhere in India.
For example a student has done his UG/PG Degree from an institute in Uttar Pradesh which has a seat which is MCI permitted but not MCI recognised then that student can only practice in Uttar Pradesh and not in any other state in India. But If that seat gets recognized by MCI in future then he can practice anywhere in India.
So , to Summarise the whole Subject a student who has done MBBS/PG Degree or Diploma from a MCI approved seat cannot practice outside the state of the institute and those from MCI recognised seats can practice anywhere in India.