Friday, June 15, 2018

MISSION ADMISSION

MBBS aspirants anxious as registration site acts up

Yogita.Rao@timesgroup.com

Mumbai:

Medical aspirants who have been given just six days for the registration process for admission to state (15% all-India quota), central and deemed universities are facing a harrowing time on the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) website. Their problems range from server issues to poor response on helpline numbers to changes introduced in the registration process this year.

With two of the six days already gone, several students are now worried about completion of the process.

Last year, the MCC and directorate general of health services (DGHS) had a more student-friendly site with screenshots of each step of the process. This year, several of these features are missing, said a parent.

“There is no user manual, no interactive board and it is difficult to get through the helpline numbers. The list of central universities does not mention Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) which has many takers. The site only has FAQs, which is not enough,” said a parent of an AFMC aspirant whose all-India rank is within 600.

Another parent said after they keyed in their child’s roll number, they were prompted with a message that said ‘you are not permitted to register for counselling’. “After several attempts, I called the helpline number. An official who answered tried logging in for us but failed. He then asked us to send a screenshot of the error
message. We are praying that the problem gets resolved.”

Sudha Shenoy from a medical parents’ organization said that several parents faced a problem while paying the deposit fee online. For the first time, to avoid vacancies in institutes, the MCC has sought a deposit of Rs 2 lakh, which will be forfeited if the students don’t take the seat allotted to them in the second round. Shenoy said the state process should have started before the deemed universities’, as for many expensive deemed colleges are the last option. “They will be worried about filling options in the second round as they may lose the deposit if they don’t take it.”

A DGHS official said the government decided to give only six days for the registration process when more than 50% of the students who have appeared for the test have qualified — around seven lakh. “The sheer volume of candidates trying to log on to the site only for a limited number of days is the main problem. But we had around 40,000 registering on the first day (Wednesday) and the numbers will improve. We have over 30 helplines. There are a few changes in the user interface, and we have received queries . We are trying to rectify it.” On the missing AFMC, he said the MCC is only doing a partial registration for the institute, the rest is done at the institute level. “Once students register, it will be visible,” he added. 


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