MBBS admissions: 182 seats in govt colleges available

MBBS admissions: 182 seats in govt colleges available

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Chennai:05.01.2021

The second round of counselling for MBBS and BDS admissions began after initial hiccups on Monday with admissions for government school students.

The counselling was delayed till noon as the selection committee sought legal clarifications over an order passed by the Madras high court in the allotment of seats to three government school students under the 7.5% quota. “These students had moved the court saying they turned down their allotment in self-financing medical colleges as they were not aware the state’s announcement sponsoring medical education came late. The court had asked us to give priority to these students during counselling. We sought certain clarifications from legal experts before going ahead with the counselling,” said director of medical education Dr R Narayanababu.

On Tuesday, when the counselling begins, there will be 182 MBBS seats in government colleges, 206 seats in selffinancing medical colleges, 68 BDS seats in government colleges, and 965 seats in self-financing dental colleges.

When the counselling began, the selection committee, which initially displayed 41 seats under the 7.5% quota, added six more by adding Muthukumaran Medical College to the seat matrix. This year, at least 132 MBBS seats that were surrendered to the central government were returned to the Tamil Nadu after they remained vacant after two rounds of centralised online counselling. The centre also returned 28 BDS seats to the state government. Muthukumaran Medical College, which was not a part of the seat matrix given by the TN Dr MGR Medical University, was added to the seat matrix after orders from the high court. In addition, the100 additional seats given to PSG and16 of the 25 additional seats given to ESIC Medical College by the National Medical Commission were also added to the seat matrix.