The Ministry of Education is all set to open nomination forms for the MBBS students awarded with scholarships from Sunday.

1. MoE opens nomination forms for medical students.
The Ministry of Education is all set to open nomination forms for the MBBS students awarded
with scholarships from Sunday.
Prakash Maharjan, Chief of Scholarship Division, said, “We are going to open nomination forms
for the MBBS students awarded with scholarships from Sunday.”
The students indicate their choice of medical institutions to pursue MBBS studies in these
nomination forms.
He stated that Nepal Medical Council, which is the authorised body to allocate number of seats
for respective medical colleges, had not yet provided information regarding the number of seats
for students in Kathmandu University affiliated medical colleges.
“Though NMC has delayed allocating seats for students, we have decided to open the
nomination form with the hope that differences between NMC and Ministry of Health and
Population will be sorted out within a week and students will get a chance to get admitted to their
desired colleges soon,” he added.
According to Maharjan, a total of 127 students awarded with scholarships were admitted in KU-affiliated
colleges in MBBS stream last year. This year, there will be around 160 students for
MBBS and some others in BSc Nursing and Bachelor in Dental Surgery.
As many as 45 per cent of total seats is reserved under women, Dalit, Madhesi, indigenous
people among others. Remaining 55 per cent seats are allocated to meritorious students.
Although classes have started for full-fee paying students since August, lack of seats allocation
in eight KU-affiliated colleges has barred scholarship students from attending classes for the past
four months. Entrance test for scholarship was held in December.
Prospective MBBS students with scholarship waiting to join classes today met Minister of
Education Chitra Lekha Yadav to urge her to sort out this issue as soon as possible.
Hari Bohara, one of the students, said that Minister Yadav today assured them to resolve this
problem by next week.
“We are trying to seek help from student unions to exert pressure on government to ensure
students’ admission in respective medical colleges,” he said.