No Clarity on NEET PG Counselling Process – Medical Aspirants Raise Concerns
Post-graduate (PG) medical course students are faced with difficulty with no clarity on the schedule of admissions. Almost two months have passed since the NEET-PG exam and the results were announced, yet the admissions procedure is still just at the registration stage.
The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) started the registration process for the first round of medical-PG admissions on September 20. However, there was no update on the schedule of admissions which is causing stress in students as their academics and classes are delayed.
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A candidate on condition of not revealing their identity said, “The NEET-PG exam was conducted on August 11 and the result was published in the same month on the 23rd. Even though the registration procedure started over a month after the results were announced, there has been no further notification, questioning the transparency of the board”
The tensed student shared that the United Doctors Front Association (UDFA) also wrote to the government earlier this month alerting about the stress caused by the inconsistency over medical-PG admissions and requesting immediate action. “But there is no further information issued,” said the candidate. A notification stating that the "PG-Counselling schedule 2024 will be available soon" is still shown on the MCC website.
A possible legal dispute surrounds the medical-PG admissions, since some candidates have petitioned the Supreme Court, and questioned on transparency in the examination. The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS), which established the All India Rank (AIR) through a normalisation process, has been ordered by the Supreme Court in a complaint filed by the candidates to release response sheets, answer keys, and raw scores.
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One of the parents, Brijesh Sutaria, describes, “Apart from concerns over transparency in this method of declaration of result, in states like Maharastra, where in-service candidates are awarded additional marks for their work, the calculation of final state merit ranks remains incomplete without NBEMS scorecards. The state counselling process depends on these ranks, and the start of counselling is further delayed if they are not released on time.”
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