Tuesday, June 12, 2018

15K applications sold on 1st day

Chennai: At least 15,000 applications for MBBS/BDS admissions to government and self-financing colleges affiliated to the state medical university were sold on Monday, the first day of sale. Nearly 2,400 applications were given free to students from the SC/ST community. The state selection committee said 9,561 students had submitted demand draft for admission to government colleges and 5, 631 had applied to self-financing colleges.


Applications were given free to 2,406 students, selection committee secretary G Selvarajan said on Monday. Candidates, particularly those who had scored between 100 and 250 in NEET 2018, were seen crowding around information kiosks as they were not sure if they had to buy application forms for self-financing colleges also by paying an additional ₹1,000. The state offers 85% of seats in 22 government colleges, up to 50% of seats from government colleges under the government quota. The tuition fee for government colleges is the lowest at ₹13,500 per year while the cost in private colleges can go up to ₹12.50 lakh in self-financing colleges. The sale will continue till June 18 at counters set up in government colleges or from tnhealth.org or tnmedicalselection.org. The last date for submitting filled in application forms is June 9.

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