For almost 100 years now, the Christian Medical College in Vellore, Tamil Nadu has taken in a fresh batch of aspiring doctors every year to live and study on its 200-acre campus. Each of its 100 students has always been a carefully selected candidate for the MBBS course, through the college’s rigorous admission process. Many of these students come from remote areas such as rural parts of Jharkhand, Mizoram and Uttar Pradesh to study medicine at one of the top institutions in the country.
But for the first time since its inception, the college has decided not to take in a new batch of students for its MBBS course and super-speciality programmes. Except for one of the 100 seats filled by a student nominated by the Centre for MBBS, and…
