Compulsory rural service for Maha doctors deferred by 1 year
The Maharashtra medical education department has deferred the implementation of compulsory one-year rural service for MBBS graduates by a year. Students who cleared their MBBS exam in 2017 can now take post-graduate entrance exams in 2018 without undertaking the rural service. Earlier this year, the department had notified that evasion of the rural service will be treated unethical. 