Counselling to fill PG med seats today

Bosco Dominique

Puducherry





The centralised admission committee (Centac) will hold counselling from 9am on May 11 for admission of students into postgraduate medical programmes in private medical colleges and deemed universities under government quota followed by counselling for admission under management quota in the institutions in the Union territory of Puducherry .

 

Thirty-eight students were allotted postgraduate medical seats under government quota in private medi cal colleges and deemed universities and three students at the Indira Gandhi government medical college and research institute during the first phase of counselling on May 4, which was stopped abruptly by the committee, citing `court orders'.

The committee will hold counselling between 9am and 11am on May 11 to fill up 121 postgraduate medical seats in private institutions under government quota. There are 315 postgraduate medical seats in three private medical colleges and four deemed universities. As per the Union health and family welfare ministry's order in February this year, 50% of the seats in each discipline (159) in the institutions must be surrendered under government quota. The committee, which has already allotted seats to 38 students during the first phase, will attempt to fill up the remaining 121seats. It has issued call letters to 127 students to attend counselling.

Only a few students appeared for the first phase of counselling (May 4) as the fees committee has not announced the fee structures of postgraduate programmes in private institutions. Fortyfive students out of 147 appeared for the counselling and the students who were allotted seats could not join as the private institutions demanded exorbitant fees (` `30 lakh per annum for clinical courses and `10 lakh per annum for non-clinical courses).