chennai two of the oldest governmentrun colleges in the state kilpauk medical college in chennai and chengalpet medical college are each likely to get 50 seats more this year the medical council of india has issued an intent letter the additional seats will be added to the existing seat matrix after the directorate receives a letter of permission we got the intent letter on thursday and are likely to get permission for admission before we begin counselling this year said a senior official though most new colleges had 100 or more seats chengalpet medical college has had only 50 seats since 1965 while kilpauk medical college has had 100 seats the state has 17 government medical colleges accounting for 1945 mbbs seats 15 of which are given to the allindia quota health minister v s vijay said the government sought mci permission to increase the intake of students in medical colleges across the state by 285 apart from a new college in sivaganga district it sought for an increase from 165 to 250 seats in madras medical college mmc 150 to 250 in the stanley medical college and 50 each in chengalpet and kilpauk medical colleges we are expecting a nod for the college in sivaganga the additional seats in mmc and stanley may be delayed the official said this year more than 26000 students are be fighting for mbbs admissions that educational consultants predict will be tougher analysts expect the cutoff for mbbs course to go down by 025 marks for admissions to colleges affiliated to the state medical university this year the overall scores were low in physics the number of students with centums in biology chemistry and physics fell from 65 in 2011 to 16 this year a lot of students aspire to become doctors the only way to ensure students get into mbbs is to increase the number of seats in government colleges said educational consultant jayaprakash gandhi