Med aspirants to send photo holding placard
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Pushpa Narayan
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Chennai:
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Students seeking MBBSBDS
admissions in Tamil Nadu this academic year cannot sign over a
passportsize photograph with an application. A photograph of the
candidate holding a placard containing hisher name and the date it was
taken should be affixed to it, the selection committee in-charge of
single counseling has declared.
The prospectus issued by the
directorate of medical education in all government medical colleges and
on http:www.tnhealth.org says two identical passport size photos with
light background (no Polaroids) taken after April 1, 2017, should be
pasted
on the OMR sheet and application.
“Photographs must be taken with a placard indicating the name of the candidate (as in the application) and date of taking the photograph. In case the name and date are written on the photo graph after taking it, the application will be rejected... If the photograph is not a recent one taken at the time of submitting the application, the application will be rejected,“ it says. The photograph on the application should be attested by a gazetted officer headmasterheadmistress with a clear stamp.
Directorate of medical education officials said they were forced to make such a requirement mandatory after officials involved in single window counselling complained that many students looked different in the photographs submitted. “Many submitted pictures that are up to three or four years old.As they grow, students tend to look different. Officials are forced to look for other documents to get the photo validated. We have also asked for an attestation this time,“ said director of medical education Dr A Edwin Joe.
While most students complain they felt humiliated and felt like criminals, parents said they had a tough time as applications were out of stock for more than four days. “We were then told we can take a printout of the forms. We thought we had everything ready until we read the prospectus online. In one of the annexures, they mentioned instructions for a photograph.We are rushing now,“ said R Satyanarayana, parent of an MBBS aspirant. The last date for submitting applications is on or before July 8.
“Photographs must be taken with a placard indicating the name of the candidate (as in the application) and date of taking the photograph. In case the name and date are written on the photo graph after taking it, the application will be rejected... If the photograph is not a recent one taken at the time of submitting the application, the application will be rejected,“ it says. The photograph on the application should be attested by a gazetted officer headmasterheadmistress with a clear stamp.
Directorate of medical education officials said they were forced to make such a requirement mandatory after officials involved in single window counselling complained that many students looked different in the photographs submitted. “Many submitted pictures that are up to three or four years old.As they grow, students tend to look different. Officials are forced to look for other documents to get the photo validated. We have also asked for an attestation this time,“ said director of medical education Dr A Edwin Joe.
While most students complain they felt humiliated and felt like criminals, parents said they had a tough time as applications were out of stock for more than four days. “We were then told we can take a printout of the forms. We thought we had everything ready until we read the prospectus online. In one of the annexures, they mentioned instructions for a photograph.We are rushing now,“ said R Satyanarayana, parent of an MBBS aspirant. The last date for submitting applications is on or before July 8.
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