Medical university refuses to register thirteen students

Medical university refuses to register thirteen students

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:16.06.2021

Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University has turned down registrations for at least 13 students who have joined five self-financing medical colleges in 2020 after the state selection committee raised a red flag over procedural violation overlooking merit. The directorate of medical education will ask the college to discharge these students and seek explanation for illegal admissions, officials said.

The selection committee under the directorate of medical education, which allots students to medical colleges – government or private – hands over vacant seats to respective self-financing college at the end of the counselling session. As as per guidelines from the Supreme Court of India the committee also gives them a list of ten students drawn from the merit list for every vacant seat. Managements of self-financing colleges must use students from this list and complete admissions within a specific date.

During 2020 admissions five medical colleges – six students Karpagam Faculty of Medical Sciences and Research Hospital, four students from Madha Medical College & Research Institute and one student each from Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Melmaruvathur Adhiparasakthi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research and Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Medical College and Hospital – had admitted students whose names did not figure in the list of students given by the medical council. Although all the students had cleared NEET and qualified for admissions, several others with better scores may have been denied a seat.

When the selection committee secretary Dr P Vasanthamani red flagged the admissions, health department advised her to follow norms laid down by the National Medical Commission and state medical university. “Students admitted to the college had marks much below the list we had sent,” said Dr Vasanthamani.