‘90% MBBS seats still vacant in deemed universities
’TNN | Aug 21, 2017, 11:56 PM IST
When the directorate released the vacancy list for the final mop-up counselling scheduled for Wednesday, data showed that 817 more students joined 43 deemed universities in the second round. With this, the vacancies dropped from 8,278 seats in round 1 to to 7,461 seats in round 2.
"We will see if we can fill up more seats in the mop-up round," a senior DGHS official said from New Delhi.
For the first time, acting on a Supreme Court order, the DGHS this year conducted centralised counselling for deemed universities. In Tamil Nadu, only six more student had joined deemed universities in second round of counselling. The DGHS has now asked eligible students, who were not allotted seats in either of the rounds, to fill in choices by Tuesday. The DGHS will on Wednesday process the results for the mop-up round and publish them on Thursday. Students will have to pay fees to secure admission to the colleges between August 25 and August 28.
The DGHS will return the vacant seats to the universities on August 28. The universities will have time till August 31 to fill the seats.
Parents say that several universities are desperate and have invited applications from students. "I was told that if I was willing pay the fees now, my son will be assured an admission," said R Shamugeshwarn, a businessman. "Agents have also started negotiating but this time we know the exact number of seats that are vacant."
The list of vacancies published by the DGHS show that MBBS seats remained untouched in many colleges and some colleges had admitted fewer than five students. For instance, no students joined colleges like ACS Medical College in Chennai, which charges Rs 19 lakh as annual tuition fee besides up to Rs 1.75 lakh as hostel fees. GITAM Institute of Medical Science and Research, Visakhapatnam, and Aarupadai Veedu Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, had one student each and Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, had two students.
While Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai, 128 of 250 seats vacant, and Saveetha University, Chennai and DY Patil University in Navi Mumbai each retained 137 of 150 seats. In SRM Medical University 137 of 150 seats are vacant. Parents said that one of the main reasons students rejected or did not join deemed universities were prohibitive fees. In each of these colleges, the fee ranged between 18.5 lakh and 23 lakh.
"My son had asked for Kasturba Medical College in Manipal as his first choice, but he did not get a seat there," another parent, Priya Shankar, said. "The fee in Manipal is Rs 10.3 lakh. Now he has been allotted to a college where the fee is Rs 21.5 lakh. But 83 of 250 seats in Manipal are still vacant."
Her son will not be able to join the mop-up round because DGHS has said only registered candidates who were not allotted a seat in the second round of allotment and "have submitted fresh choices as per the vacancies shown before the second round of counselling" are eligible for the round.
Chennai: After two rounds of counselling by the Directorate General of Health Sciences (DGHS), nearly 90% of MBBS seats in several deemed universities across the country, some of which cost up to Rs 1 crore, remained vacant on Monday.
When the directorate released the vacancy list for the final mop-up counselling scheduled for Wednesday, data showed that 817 more students joined 43 deemed universities in the second round. With this, the vacancies dropped from 8,278 seats in round 1 to to 7,461 seats in round 2.
"We will see if we can fill up more seats in the mop-up round," a senior DGHS official said from New Delhi.
For the first time, acting on a Supreme Court order, the DGHS this year conducted centralised counselling for deemed universities. In Tamil Nadu, only six more student had joined deemed universities in second round of counselling. The DGHS has now asked eligible students, who were not allotted seats in either of the rounds, to fill in choices by Tuesday. The DGHS will on Wednesday process the results for the mop-up round and publish them on Thursday. Students will have to pay fees to secure admission to the colleges between August 25 and August 28.
The DGHS will return the vacant seats to the universities on August 28. The universities will have time till August 31 to fill the seats.
Parents say that several universities are desperate and have invited applications from students. "I was told that if I was willing pay the fees now, my son will be assured an admission," said R Shamugeshwarn, a businessman. "Agents have also started negotiating but this time we know the exact number of seats that are vacant."
The list of vacancies published by the DGHS show that MBBS seats remained untouched in many colleges and some colleges had admitted fewer than five students. For instance, no students joined colleges like ACS Medical College in Chennai, which charges Rs 19 lakh as annual tuition fee besides up to Rs 1.75 lakh as hostel fees. GITAM Institute of Medical Science and Research, Visakhapatnam, and Aarupadai Veedu Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, had one student each and Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, had two students.
While Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai, 128 of 250 seats vacant, and Saveetha University, Chennai and DY Patil University in Navi Mumbai each retained 137 of 150 seats. In SRM Medical University 137 of 150 seats are vacant. Parents said that one of the main reasons students rejected or did not join deemed universities were prohibitive fees. In each of these colleges, the fee ranged between 18.5 lakh and 23 lakh.
"My son had asked for Kasturba Medical College in Manipal as his first choice, but he did not get a seat there," another parent, Priya Shankar, said. "The fee in Manipal is Rs 10.3 lakh. Now he has been allotted to a college where the fee is Rs 21.5 lakh. But 83 of 250 seats in Manipal are still vacant."
Her son will not be able to join the mop-up round because DGHS has said only registered candidates who were not allotted a seat in the second round of allotment and "have submitted fresh choices as per the vacancies shown before the second round of counselling" are eligible for the round.
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