Tripura ‘Shanti Niketan Medical College’ starts admission process for MBBS, OPD service launched from August

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, November 4, 2024

The ‘Tripura Shanti Niketan Medical College’ has already started the procession of admission of students to the first year MBBS course , having obtained authorization for admission of 150 students from the National Medical Commission (NMC) for the year 2024-2025. The students seeking admission to the first year MBBS course as well as their guardians have been thronging the college campus at Ranir Khamar area near Agartala and the process of admission is likely to be completed on November 5 along with the rest of the country.

Announcing this in an interaction with the media the president of the ‘Shanti Niketan Medical College’ authority Malay Pith said that the college authority has already started classes of the first year MBBS through the novel method of flashing live lectures on ‘Youtube’ and ‘Facebook’ channels. “These online lectures will immensely help students by enabling them to have records of the same; the guardians will also benefit from this as they will remain free from tension over studies of their wards” said Malay Pith.

“We have already launched OPD service in the college as well as in the under-construction hospital from the month of August this year; every day from Monday to Saturday OPD services are open for patients from 10-00 AM to 1-00 PM and specialist doctors are posted there to take care of the patients; the fees for OPD services is only Rs 10.00 per patient” said Malay Pith. In all other matters related to purchase of medicine, treatment and tests, attractive subsidies are being given.

Speaking to media persons in Agartala Press Club Mala Pith said that the under-construction 650-bed hospital will be completed within next one year with co-operation from the state government while in next two years another 1100-bed multi super-speciality hospital will also come up in state of the art condition. Malay Pith also expressed his thanks to the Tripura government for allowing the IGM hospital to be used as affiliated teaching hospital of the ‘Tripura Shanti Niketan Medical College’ for two years and said that in the coming days the ‘Shanti Niketan Medical College’ authority will build up a knowledge city and an ultra modern digital library in the state. He added that, over and above the programmes already chalked out, the college authority will also set up a separate college for diploma and degree courses in Horticulture in the state. The MLA of the Ranir Khamar area where the ‘Shanti Niketan Medical College’ is located, Ram Prasad Paul also appreciated the initiative taken by the college authority to upgrade the medical education and service system as well as other service sectors in Tripura.