National Medical Commission Withdraws MBBS Permission to J&K Medical College Facing BJP-Led Protests
07 January 2026 | The Wire
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has withdrawn the permission granted in September last year to the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi (SMVD) Institute of Medical Excellence in Jammu and Kashmir to open admissions for the MBBS course.
The decision came hours after the activists of the newly-floated SMVD Sangharsh Samiti which is backed by the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party held a protest outside the civil secretariat in Jammu on Tuesday against the admission of Muslim and other non-Hindu students to the institute…