Overview
- The Medical Assessment and Rating Board withdrew SMVDIME’s permission after a 2 January inspection under NMC powers confirmed serious non-compliance with minimum standards.
- All 50 admitted students will be accommodated as supernumerary seats in other recognised medical colleges in Jammu and Kashmir, with UT authorities tasked to implement the relocations.
- The institute’s inaugural admission list—reported as 42 Muslim students and one Sikh out of 50—triggered weeks of protests led by the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Sangarsh Samiti and allied groups.
- BJP leaders welcomed the revocation as an enforcement of quality norms, while National Conference and Congress figures called it a setback; Chief Minister Omar Abdullah defended merit-based admissions and urged closure with student relocation.
- An NMC official said the action was based on rules rather than the protests, and local reporting notes proposals under discussion to revive or reorganise the institute, including central counselling or a deemed-university route.