After a protracted delay, the seat matrix for medical post-graduation (PG) admissions has lastly been declared by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC). There are 25,791 seats accessible for grabs for spherical 1 of the 2024 medical PG admissions. That is 820 greater than final 12 months’s 24,971 seats.
In keeping with the admission schedule declared by MCC on November 1, the seat matrix was scheduled to be out on November 7, following which college students have been to get 10 days to file their decisions of faculties so as of choice. Nonetheless, it was not declared Saturday night, which had led to candidates rising involved as that they had been ready for PG admissions to start out.
Sudha Shenoy, a guardian consultant, stated, “As anticipated, the seat matrix was delayed for medical PG admissions. Extra so, there are extra seats in deemed Uuniversities total than in authorities faculties.”
Because the medical PG admissions have been already delayed, 1000’s of aspirants had heaved a sigh of aid when MCC declared the admissions schedule final week on November 1. Nonetheless, there was a delay because the seat matrix which was anticipated to be out on November 7 was not declared by November 9.
“And since there was no communication from the MCC, college students have been watching uncertainty, till the seat matrix was lastly out on Saturday night,” stated a candidate.
There was a discount of 335 seats within the All India Quota (AIQ) Authorities Medical Schools (GMC), which based on dad and mom considerably impacts college students who depend on these inexpensive seats decided by state authorities rules.
One other guardian consultant, Brijesh Sutaria additionally identified how the biggest enhance in seats is in a class which is essentially inaccessible to a majority of scholars. The most important enhance is seen in deemed medical faculties, with 537 further seats. “Nonetheless, the charges for these seats are sometimes prohibitively excessive, making them inaccessible to many college students,” Sutaria stated, including that the precise seat enhance seems to fall in need of what was promised. “The federal government had promised a rise of round 4,087 seats in PG medical programs for 2024-2025,” stated Sutaria.
