SHILLONG: The Assam Government has agreed to allot all the 10 MBBS seats to Meghalaya this year.
Informing this here on Friday, Health and Family Welfare Minister AL Hek said he took up the matter with his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma.
“Today we got information that they have decided to allot all the 10 seats to Meghalaya,” he added.
Earlier, the minister had shot off a letter to Sarma expressing anguish over the decision of the neighbouring state to allot only two MBBS seats to Meghalaya students this year.
Ten seats are usually reserved for Meghalaya – four in Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, four in Guwahati Medical College and two in Silchar Medical College – as per the agreement at the time of bifurcation of Assam.
According to Paragraph 6 of the minutes of the meeting of the Joint Committee on division of assets and liabilities in 1976, Assam had agreed to provide all facilities available in the Common Institutions (including medical colleges) located in Assam to the Government of Meghalaya provided the expenditure is shared on pro-rata basis.
Last year, the neighbouring state did not admit 10 nominees of the Meghalaya government in the three prestigious colleges of Assam until the intervention of the Supreme Court.
