Tuesday, July 3, 2018

MBBS counselling begins, 572 seats allotted on Day 1

Pushpa.Narayan@timesgroup.com

Chennai: 03.07.2018

Counselling for admissions to MBBS/BDS by the state selection committee began on Monday at the Government multi-speciality hospital.

At 9am, health minister C Vijaya Baskar gave away allotment orders to toppers – most opted for seats in Madras Medical College. Among the top ten candidates – only the second and fourth ranked students attended counselling.

Counters opened with 3,501MBBS seats and1068 BDS seats in the state quota. While there were 2447 seats from the 22 government colleges, 65 seats were reserved for ESIC KK Nagar, 862 for self-financing colleges and 127 for Raja Muthiah Medical College of Annamalai University. When the counters opened, there were 65 seats in Madras Medical College and 66 seats in Stanley Medical College. By 2pm, open category seats in Madras Medical College and Stanley Medical College were empty and open seats in Dharamapuri (26), Theni (26), Tiruvarur (26) and Pudukkottai

(40) were down to 10.

“No student has been admitted to Dharmapuri, Theni, Tiruvarur and Pudukkottai but the open category seats in these colleges were transferred. We follow this looping so students from reserved community students in open category can be accommodated in top colleges,” a counsellor was heard telling parents.

By the end of day 1, 185 of the 757 OC seats were filled with no seats in Madras Medical College, Stanley Medical College, Madurai Medical College and Coimbatore Medical College. Of the 609 students called for counselling, 580 attended and seats were allotted to 572 candidates in government medical colleges, while one student opted for a seat in a self-financing college.


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