`Ranklists show 30% med seats to go to students
from Chennai, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur'
The number of students from other states securing MBBS seats from the government quota on the basis of nativity will go up from about 47 in 2016 to nearly 500 this year, if the state admits students on the basis of NEET. This would be a 11-fold increase in the 85% government quota seats in 22 state-run medical colleges and state quota seats in 10 self-financing medical colleges compared to 2016.Data from the directorate of medical education shows that this year 58 candidates from Karnataka, 44 from Kerala and 17 from Andhra Pradesh applied on the basis of nativity and qualified for MBBS admissions, besides 381 more students from other states. Last year, there were less than 50 students from outside TN.
This year, the number of government quota seats went down to 3,377 from 3,609 in 2016, but the percentage of government seats for other state students might go up from 1.30% to 14%.
Baffled by these numbers, state health minister C Vijaya Baskar, higher education minister K P Anbalagan and four other ministers, who left for New Delhi on Sunday , will camp there to convince Union ministers and MPs that Tamil Nadu should be exempted from NEET, at least for 2017. Meritorious students within our state will be diTuesday rectly affected by this,“ said Vijaya Baskar. On , chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami is likely to meet prime minister Narendra Modi to discuss the NEET issue after the swearing-in ceremony of Ram Nath Kovind as President.
The provisional rank lists worked out by the selection committee show that this year students from districts such as Tiruvarur, Ramanathapuram and Nagapattimam were getting fewer seats, Vijaya Baskar told TOIon Sunday . In Dharmapuri, the share dipped from nearly to 6% to 1.5%. “Nearly 30% of the students were from Chennai, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur,“ he said. Counselling for medical admissions, which was scheduled to begin on July 17, was put on hold after the Madras high court quashed the government order that reserved 85% of government quota seats to students from the state board. The state ap pealed to a division bench stating that less than 6% of state board students who cleared NEET in Tamil Nadu can get admission compared to three in 10 students from CBSE if 85% of seats are not reserved for state board students.
A senior official from the directorate said more than 1,400 state board students and around 1,000 from the CBSE and other boards would secure government college seats. This year, 48% of seats are likely to go to students of CBSE and other boards. “But among the 1000 students from CBSE, a majority are from Chennai. This is because a majority of CBSE schools are in the city. The state has just 268 CBSE schools,“ he said.
Meanwhile, CBSE students signed a petition on change.org, addressed to the Madras high court, Union human resource and development minister Prakash Javadekhar, Medical Council of India, Supreme Court of India, CBSE chairman R K Chaturvedi and Modi. The petition filed by Harini P had received over 600 signatures by Sunday evening.
Harini, who took a year's break to study for NEET, hoped Tamil Nadu would be asked to hold the state's medical admissions based solely on NEET. “ A deserving student should get the medical seat no matter how the system, syllabus and the qualifying exam changes,“ she said. Medical Council of India (MCI) vicepresident Dr Bhirmanandham said the state should improve the syllabus and teaching methodologies to help state board students secure better NEET scores.
This year, the number of government quota seats went down to 3,377 from 3,609 in 2016, but the percentage of government seats for other state students might go up from 1.30% to 14%.
Baffled by these numbers, state health minister C Vijaya Baskar, higher education minister K P Anbalagan and four other ministers, who left for New Delhi on Sunday , will camp there to convince Union ministers and MPs that Tamil Nadu should be exempted from NEET, at least for 2017. Meritorious students within our state will be diTuesday rectly affected by this,“ said Vijaya Baskar. On , chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami is likely to meet prime minister Narendra Modi to discuss the NEET issue after the swearing-in ceremony of Ram Nath Kovind as President.
The provisional rank lists worked out by the selection committee show that this year students from districts such as Tiruvarur, Ramanathapuram and Nagapattimam were getting fewer seats, Vijaya Baskar told TOIon Sunday . In Dharmapuri, the share dipped from nearly to 6% to 1.5%. “Nearly 30% of the students were from Chennai, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur,“ he said. Counselling for medical admissions, which was scheduled to begin on July 17, was put on hold after the Madras high court quashed the government order that reserved 85% of government quota seats to students from the state board. The state ap pealed to a division bench stating that less than 6% of state board students who cleared NEET in Tamil Nadu can get admission compared to three in 10 students from CBSE if 85% of seats are not reserved for state board students.
A senior official from the directorate said more than 1,400 state board students and around 1,000 from the CBSE and other boards would secure government college seats. This year, 48% of seats are likely to go to students of CBSE and other boards. “But among the 1000 students from CBSE, a majority are from Chennai. This is because a majority of CBSE schools are in the city. The state has just 268 CBSE schools,“ he said.
Meanwhile, CBSE students signed a petition on change.org, addressed to the Madras high court, Union human resource and development minister Prakash Javadekhar, Medical Council of India, Supreme Court of India, CBSE chairman R K Chaturvedi and Modi. The petition filed by Harini P had received over 600 signatures by Sunday evening.
Harini, who took a year's break to study for NEET, hoped Tamil Nadu would be asked to hold the state's medical admissions based solely on NEET. “ A deserving student should get the medical seat no matter how the system, syllabus and the qualifying exam changes,“ she said. Medical Council of India (MCI) vicepresident Dr Bhirmanandham said the state should improve the syllabus and teaching methodologies to help state board students secure better NEET scores.
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