85% seats in new med colleges will be for TN students: CM

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Namakkal:06.03.2020

Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said 85% of seats in the 11 new government medical colleges will be given to students from TN, while the rest will be admitted under the all-India quota.

Speaking at the ground breaking ceremony for a government medical college to be built at ₹338.76 crore at Nallipalayam in Namakkal on Thursday, the chief minister said, “Students from the state who clear Neet will also be eligible under all India quota.” All candidates have to clear Neet to be eligible to get into medical colleges. While 15% of seats are given to the Centre for admission under the all-India quota, admission for 85% seats takes place through single window counselling done by the state selection committee. These seats are given to students from TN.

On DMK chief M K Stalin’s comment that the new medical colleges would be of no use to students from the state as students from other states would enter these colleges by clearing Neet, EPS said Stalin was spreading wrong information.

The chief minister promised to construct a barrage across river Cauvery at the cost of ₹65 crore to tide over water crisis in Namakkal and Karur districts. Union minister for state for health and family welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey and deputy CM O Panneerselvam also participated in the function. The CM laid foundation stones for eight other projects, inaugurated a government arts and science college in Senthamangalam and a seven-storey building constructed at ₹155.80 crore on the government medical college hospital premises at Sanapiratti in Karur district.