Over 1k PG medical seats vacant in state, dad and mom search change in admission coverage | Mumbai information

Mumbai: Greater than 1,000 postgraduate (PG) medical seats throughout the nation have gone vacant this 12 months, of which 296 seats are in Maharashtra. Admissions to the PG medical programs carried out by the Medical Counseling Committee (MCC) ended on Might 9.

Subsequent to this, dad and mom and college students are demanding adjustments in admission guidelines to make sure that seats in essential programs do not go vacant yearly. “The truth that seats in scientific in addition to non-clinical programs throughout the nation have gone vacant this 12 months is an alarming pattern. Authorities, each in state and central authorities, have to look into this downside and repair it on the earliest,” stated Muzaffar Khan, a medical schooling activist primarily based out of Thane. He added {that a} change in admission coverage, launched by MCC this 12 months, may very well be a purpose for the excessive variety of vacant seats.

Until the earlier educational 12 months, admissions to seats beneath the All-India Quota (AIQ) and state medical faculties had been carried out concurrently as a result of vacant seats in AIQ after the second spherical had been surrendered to the respective states for state quota rounds. In December 2021, nevertheless, MCC launched a notification stating that 2021-22 educational 12 months onwards, 4 AIQ rounds might be carried out by MCC itself– AIQ 1, AIQ 2, mop-up spherical 1, and stray emptiness spherical. No seats might be surrendered to state admission our bodies, stated MCC. AIQ rounds are carried out to refill 15% of seats in authorities and personal UG medical institutes and 50% seats in authorities and personal PG medical institutes.

“Many college students who had been ready for seats in a selected course in authorities medical institutes ended up blocking seats in non-public establishments in the course of the AIQ rounds and withdrew admissions as soon as they bought seats in state seat allotment rounds. This has led to numerous seat vacancies in non-public medical faculties throughout programs together with surgical procedure and ENT,” stated a closing 12 months PG resident pupil.

Info shared by the state frequent entrance check (CET) cell reveals that of the whole 1928 PG medical seats obtainable in authorities medical faculties and personal institutes in Maharashtra this 12 months, 1,632 seats have gotten confirmed whereas 295 stay unclaimed as of Might 11–134 of those seats are vacant is in GMCs and in non-public institutes, the emptiness stands at 162. Whereas MCC has declared the final date of admission, the state CET cell is but to name for a deadline and plans to conduct one other spherical of seat allotment to fill vacant seats.

Earlier this 12 months, the Nationwide Medical Fee (NMC) revealed {that a} whole of 1,425 post-graduate seats, 1,365 broad-specialty, and 60 diplomas remained vacant within the 2020-21 educational 12 months. This was in response to a question raised on the Lok Sabha and the NMC had attributed the seat emptiness to a delay in admissions within the earlier educational 12 months.