All-India med admissions now in four rounds

All-India med admissions now in four rounds

Yogita.Rao@timesgroup.com

Mumbai:19.12.2021

Admissions to all-India quota seats in undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses will now be done by the Centre in four rounds instead of two. The move will bring in more transparency in the counselling process and ensure there is no violation of merit.

However, students from Maharashtra will be left with 200-225 fewer MBBS seats during the state round of admissions.

For UG admissions, around 1,700 of the total 7,000 seats in the country were returned to states at the end of the second rounds previously.

Based on an affidavit filed by the ministry of health and family welfare, the Supreme Court directed the medical counselling committee (MCC) of the directorate general of health services to conduct admissions to 15% undergraduate and 50% postgraduate seats under the all-India quota in four rounds.

This will mean that in addition to the first two all-India rounds, mop-up and stray vacancy rounds will also be conducted for 2021-22 admissions. Earlier only the all-India rounds were conducted by MCC and the vacant seats were returned to the state. An official from the ministry said that this was an anomaly in the admission process, which has now been corrected.