New Delhi: As per a report, several medical aspirants and their parents are opposing to the e central Medical Counselling Committee’s (MCC) decision to hold a special stray vacancy round to fill 323 vacant MBBS seats in the all-India quota, without giving them a chance to upgrade.
Students and Parents have said that these seats are vacant in sought-after government medical colleges and may now be opened to students with lower merit ranks.
It will be unfair to a section of these students, as getting a seat in a government college is highly competitive. Of the 323 vacant seats in the all-India quota, 38 are vacant in Maharashtra, in colleges like JJ, Sion, Nair, BJ.
Further, those students who have not secured seats in any college, are only eligible for the special round. Students are expected to pay a refundable security deposit of Rs 50,000.
Maharashtra MBBS Admission 2022: Parents Remark on Special Round
Sudha Shenoy, a parent representative, said that many students with higher ranks may have secured seats in private and deemed medical colleges or a government college, which was not their top choice. "They were not allowed to cancel after the state admission rounds and now will be stuck with those seats, if they are not given a chance to upgrade," she said, adding that a few parents are considering moving court.
Meanwhile, the state admission rounds for MBBS seats concluded in Maharashtra with only one vacant seat in MBBS and 198 vacancies in dental colleges.
Comparing the statistics, for the last two years, 852 and 1028 seats were vacant in private dental colleges, the vacancies dropped this year, indicating increase in demand.
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