Medical counselling for open category begins on Monday with fewer seats

Medical counselling for open category begins on Monday with fewer seats

Pushpa.Narayan@timesgroup.com

Chennai: 22.11.2020 

Fifty eight medical seats and two dental seats were taken during the single window counselling for special category students – people with disability, eminent sportspersons and wards of ex-servicemen – on Saturday at the Nehru outdoor stadium.

The selection committee had called 70 candidates from the three groups for counselling, which began at 9am. Among the 64students who attended, 58 of them were allotted seats in government medical colleges. Two students were given seats in state-run dental colleges. Four others were waitlisted.

On Monday, after nearly four days of special counselling, seat allotment will begin for open category students. The state will roll out 2,747 seats with 864 seats in open quota in government colleges.

But seats will be fewer in self-financing colleges. While Muthukumaran Medical College did not make it to the list, additional seats in PSG Medical college were not reflected in the seat matrix. The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical College had added them to the chart on November 6, but the college has not got the mandatory essentiality certificate from the state government for the additional seats, officials said. “We will be able to admit students after clearance from the state,” said selection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan.

Among the 14 other self-financing categories there are 1,061 seats. This includes new colleges, Panimalar Medical Collegewith69 and Indira Medical College with 90 seats.

The committee has, however, retained Tagore Medical College and Trichy SRM Medical College, though MGR University has said permission for renewal is pending from the National Medical Council. “The college has not got the renewal because of the pandemic. There will be no problem if we admit students. If they ask us for details during the counselling, we will help them,” Dr Selvarajan said. Admission to Christian Medical College will be treated as a separate category.

Among the self-financing colleges there will be 329 seats for the open category. While 281 seats will be reserved for BC, 37 for BCM, 212 for MBC, 160 for SC, 31 for SCA and 11 for ST.