Confusion over nativity stumps medical aspirants
TNN | Jul 11, 2019, 09.16 AM IST
CHENNAI: Two flaws in the prospectus issued by the Tamil Nadu government for MBBS/BDS admissions caused most confusion on the issue of nativity, leading to people from other states applying without fulfilling nativity or domiciliary criteria.
One of the points of the prospectus, released online, read, “Candidates belonging to other states and residing in Tamil Nadu cannot claim nativity of Tamil Nadu and will be considered under open category.”
The next point said, “Candidates who are not native to Tamil Nadu and have studied from Standard VI to XII here will be considered under open category.”
Most parents and students assumed that other state students who have not studied in TN could apply under the open category. On Tuesday, the allotment of a candidate from Rajasthan to Sree Mookambika Institute of Medical Sciences was cancelled because she did not go to school in TN.
On Tuesday, names of two students were removed from the merit list because they were not able to prove themselves as natives of TN. Many applications were rejected before the merit list was released and some of them were rejected during off-line counselling in the last two days. “These two points should not have been broken. They should be read together,” said selection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan.
The committee wanted to make it clear applicants should have studied here between Classes VI and XII or should be natives. “Students from other states studying here can apply only under the open category.”
The second problem is the prospectus doesn’t insist on TN natives, who studied from Class VI to XII outside TN, partly or completely, producing the “nativity certificate” with true copies of other certificates.
“Many students did not attest this in the original application. So, we published their names on the merit list but we are verifying them now,” officials said.
Many students and parents released names of at least 100 TN students on rank lists of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka on social media; some brought it to the counselling hall for discussion.
In the assembly, health minister C Vijayabaskar, replying to a calling attention motion moved by DMK’s P T R Palanivel Thiagarajan, said officials were also checking the nativity of each parent.
“We appreciate the issues raised by the member and we have taken several steps to save our students. We are asking for students’ nativity certificates, parents’ nativity certificates and ration card. We also take an undertaking in a ₹100 stamp paper,” said the minister.
A total of 1,379 aspirants were alloted seats, out of 1490 called for counselling on Wednesday.
TNN | Jul 11, 2019, 09.16 AM IST
CHENNAI: Two flaws in the prospectus issued by the Tamil Nadu government for MBBS/BDS admissions caused most confusion on the issue of nativity, leading to people from other states applying without fulfilling nativity or domiciliary criteria.
One of the points of the prospectus, released online, read, “Candidates belonging to other states and residing in Tamil Nadu cannot claim nativity of Tamil Nadu and will be considered under open category.”
The next point said, “Candidates who are not native to Tamil Nadu and have studied from Standard VI to XII here will be considered under open category.”
Most parents and students assumed that other state students who have not studied in TN could apply under the open category. On Tuesday, the allotment of a candidate from Rajasthan to Sree Mookambika Institute of Medical Sciences was cancelled because she did not go to school in TN.
On Tuesday, names of two students were removed from the merit list because they were not able to prove themselves as natives of TN. Many applications were rejected before the merit list was released and some of them were rejected during off-line counselling in the last two days. “These two points should not have been broken. They should be read together,” said selection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan.
The committee wanted to make it clear applicants should have studied here between Classes VI and XII or should be natives. “Students from other states studying here can apply only under the open category.”
The second problem is the prospectus doesn’t insist on TN natives, who studied from Class VI to XII outside TN, partly or completely, producing the “nativity certificate” with true copies of other certificates.
“Many students did not attest this in the original application. So, we published their names on the merit list but we are verifying them now,” officials said.
Many students and parents released names of at least 100 TN students on rank lists of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka on social media; some brought it to the counselling hall for discussion.
In the assembly, health minister C Vijayabaskar, replying to a calling attention motion moved by DMK’s P T R Palanivel Thiagarajan, said officials were also checking the nativity of each parent.
“We appreciate the issues raised by the member and we have taken several steps to save our students. We are asking for students’ nativity certificates, parents’ nativity certificates and ration card. We also take an undertaking in a ₹100 stamp paper,” said the minister.
A total of 1,379 aspirants were alloted seats, out of 1490 called for counselling on Wednesday.
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