Tuesday, July 31, 2018

NEET toppers opt for CMC as mgmt quota counselling begins

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai  31.05.2018

: After a long wait, a dozen students from the top 50 NEET rank-holders in the state picked seats in Christian Medical College, Vellore.

This is the first time the century-old college is admitting students through the single window counselling conducted by the state selection committee. As per the seat matrix released by the state government, 12 of the 100 seats in the college will be reserved for open category students, three for SC/ST students, one for MCI and 84 seats for the network of churches that run hospitals in rural areas.

On Monday, counselling for admission to MBBS management seats in self-financing colleges began with admission to students to IRT, Perundurai. The first student to pick CMC was Raj Chendur Abhishek with a NEET score of 656. The last student to get admission in CMC under open category was Nanditha Vinodh S, who had a NEET score of 595.

The selection committee called for 2,607 candidates, but only 422 of them attended. Of these,101students were allotted seats and 321 others were waitlisted. The seat matrix released by the committee showed11colleges with 247 seats under the linguistic minority category and 155 seats in the open category. However, some colleges such as Trichy SRM Medical College which has listed 53 seats in the minority category moved nearly 40 seats to the open category and Sree Mookambika Institute of Medical Sciences in Kanyakumari pushed five seats to open category.

Meanwhile, the New Delhi-based (Directorate General of Health Services) DGHS, which does counselling for the15% All India Quota (AIQ) seats has kept the second round of counselling in abeyance following court cases.

“The second round of counselling to government colleges will begin as soon as the DGHS returns vacant seats in our 22 government colleges,” said selection committee secretary G Selvarajan.

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