Spl stray counselling round announced for MBBS, BDS

Spl stray counselling round announced for MBBS, BDS 

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 17.11.2024 

Chennai : The Medical Counselling Committee under the Dir ectorate General of Health Services has announced a special stray round for medical and dental admissions across the country more than 10 days after it closed the admission process on Nov 5. The state selection committee will also conduct a special round for nearly 57 MBBS seats and additional seats. On Saturday, the revised schedule released by the central committee stated that counselling for seats under AIQ, central institutions, and deemed universities will be held from Nov 20. The results will be announced on Nov 23. Students must report to allotted colleges by Nov 30. The state counselling will begin on Nov 25, and the last date to join allotted colleges will be Dec 5. MCC is yet to release the seat matrix or rules for counselling, but officials in the state selection committee said Annaii Medical College and Hospital was allotted 50 additional MBBS seats. One seat in Stanley Medical College is vacant after the death of a student. In addition, six MBBS seats – management/NRI lapsed – in selffinancing medical colleges and 28 BDS seats, including four in govt medical colleges, are vacant after four rounds of counselling. 

Reopening admissions, officials say, will be laborious and chaotic. “At least 7.5% of these seats from Annaii Medical College will have to be set aside for govt school students, there will be 25 seats for govt quota, and the remaining seats will be for management and NRI,” said a senior official at the DME. “Since there are govt and govt quota seats, we must allow students who already joined a choice to opt for the new seats. This means lots of movement between colleges,” he said. The DME will announce the regulations and detailed schedule for undergraduate counselling after discussions with health officials on Monday. 

Pvt med colleges challenge MBBS fee structure 

Chennai : The Tamil Nadu Self-Financing Medical Colleges Association has moved the Madras high court challenging the fee fixed for medical courses in private colleges for the academic year 2024-25 by the statutory fee fixation committee. Alleging discrimination on the part of the committee, the association said that while Rs 4.35 lakh was fixed as the fee for govt seats in private colleges and Rs 13.50 lakh for management seats, the fee for state private universities was fixed as Rs 5.4 lakh for govt seats and Rs 16.20 lakh for management seats. Admitting the plea, a division bench of Justice D Krishnakumar and Justice P B Balaji directed the state govt and the fee fixation committee to file their response in two weeks. According to the association, the order passed by the committee is violative of Article 14 of the Constitution as they discriminate between the fee fixed for self-financing private colleges and state private universities without any basis or reason