Competition will be tougher for MBBS and BDS seats
CHENNAI, JUNE 07, 2019 00:00 IST
3,350 seats available in govt. colleges, 1,600 in private colleges
Candidates can apply online for MBBS/BDS seats in the State government’s medical colleges from June 7 to 20, the Directorate of Medical Education has said.
Aspirants will be able to download application forms from Friday, said G. Selvarajan, medical education selection secretary. Candidates can approach the medical colleges, e-seva centres or engineering colleges in the case of 11 districts that do not have a medical college, he said.
The competition for medical seats will be tougher this year since 82,480 more students have qualified when compared to last year, across the country.
The cut off has gone up by 15 marks in the general category and by 11 marks for the physically handicapped students.
The good news is that the Medical Council of India had given approval to several government colleges in various States to increase seats.
Tamil Nadu will have 3,350 seats in government medical colleges besides around 1,600 seats in self-financing colleges. This year, the State has planned to commission a new government medical college at Karur and is awaiting approval for 150 seats. The Madurai and Tirunelveli medical colleges have each added 100 seats.
Among self-financing medical colleges, the Kovai Medical Centre Hospital is expected to get the nod to admit 150 students.
While 15% of the seats will be surrendered to the central pool for which counselling will be done by the Directorate of Health Services the rest of the seats will be allocated to the State’s candidates based on a merit list derived by the State. It is anticipated that the cut off in government medical colleges would also go up significantly.
Compensation sought
The Doctors’ Association for Social Equality has called for 50% allocation of seats in medical colleges for students of government schools.
It has demanded that the government seek exemption from admitting students to colleges offering Indian medicine systems of education through NEET.
G.R. Ravindranath, general secretary, has urged the Chief Minister to provide Rs. 50 lakh to the family of students who committed suicide following their failure to qualify in NEET.
The Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions 2019 committee, under the aegis of the Directorate of Technical Education, will start the certificate verification process on Friday at the 45 TNEA facilitation centres (TFCs) in the State.
Candidates would have an opportunity to watch a video presentation on the online counselling process. Higher Education Minister K.P. Anbalagan said the video would be screened at all TFCs for the benefit of aspirants.
“Every aspirant can apply for all the colleges listed in the prospectus if they so wish. Last time, the students had lost an opportunity by not choosing more colleges. We found that most students had chosen only five or six colleges. In some cases only 10 colleges,” he added.
CHENNAI, JUNE 07, 2019 00:00 IST
3,350 seats available in govt. colleges, 1,600 in private colleges
Candidates can apply online for MBBS/BDS seats in the State government’s medical colleges from June 7 to 20, the Directorate of Medical Education has said.
Aspirants will be able to download application forms from Friday, said G. Selvarajan, medical education selection secretary. Candidates can approach the medical colleges, e-seva centres or engineering colleges in the case of 11 districts that do not have a medical college, he said.
The competition for medical seats will be tougher this year since 82,480 more students have qualified when compared to last year, across the country.
The cut off has gone up by 15 marks in the general category and by 11 marks for the physically handicapped students.
The good news is that the Medical Council of India had given approval to several government colleges in various States to increase seats.
Tamil Nadu will have 3,350 seats in government medical colleges besides around 1,600 seats in self-financing colleges. This year, the State has planned to commission a new government medical college at Karur and is awaiting approval for 150 seats. The Madurai and Tirunelveli medical colleges have each added 100 seats.
Among self-financing medical colleges, the Kovai Medical Centre Hospital is expected to get the nod to admit 150 students.
While 15% of the seats will be surrendered to the central pool for which counselling will be done by the Directorate of Health Services the rest of the seats will be allocated to the State’s candidates based on a merit list derived by the State. It is anticipated that the cut off in government medical colleges would also go up significantly.
Compensation sought
The Doctors’ Association for Social Equality has called for 50% allocation of seats in medical colleges for students of government schools.
It has demanded that the government seek exemption from admitting students to colleges offering Indian medicine systems of education through NEET.
G.R. Ravindranath, general secretary, has urged the Chief Minister to provide Rs. 50 lakh to the family of students who committed suicide following their failure to qualify in NEET.
The Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions 2019 committee, under the aegis of the Directorate of Technical Education, will start the certificate verification process on Friday at the 45 TNEA facilitation centres (TFCs) in the State.
Candidates would have an opportunity to watch a video presentation on the online counselling process. Higher Education Minister K.P. Anbalagan said the video would be screened at all TFCs for the benefit of aspirants.
“Every aspirant can apply for all the colleges listed in the prospectus if they so wish. Last time, the students had lost an opportunity by not choosing more colleges. We found that most students had chosen only five or six colleges. In some cases only 10 colleges,” he added.
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