Tamil Nadu medical counselling to go online this year
Pushpa Narayan | TNN | Mar 9, 2019, 06:06 IST
Picture used for representational purpose onlyCHENNAI: Counselling for postgraduate and undergraduate medical courses, including choice selection and seat allotment, in the state may go completely online from the 2019-20 academic year. Once the system takes effect, medical aspirants will be saved from the hassle of visiting the counselling centre in Chennai from different parts of the state, and the agony of staring at the disappearing number of seats on digital boards.
Health minister C Vijaya Baskar said the selection committee was testing a software that would allow postgraduate aspirants to download and submit applications, lock their choice of courses and colleges, and download admit cards after seats are alloted based on NEET rank and rules of reservation. “We plan to launch it during postgraduate counselling in April. We expect at least 10,000 applications. It is more complex than MBBS because students will have to lock in their choice of courses as well as choice of colleges,” he told TOI. Compared to last year, government has hiked the number of PG seats in the state by nearly 40% to 1,758.
TN allowed to start 124 new PG medical courses
The state has recently received the Centre’s permission to convert 384 of its 396 diploma seats into degrees. In addition, the state has been allowed to start 124 new PG courses across 14 state-run medical colleges. With more than 11,000 students clearing PG NEET, the selection committee is expecting to see a large number of applications this year.
In May, the selection committee will also extend the online facility to MBBS counselling. “For the UG programme, students have to lock colleges of choice. There will be at least 25,000 applicants and we are testing to see if this software can take the load,” said a senior official.
Until now, counselling for PG and UG medical courses in the state was being conducted at counselling centres such as the government multi-speciality hospital at the Omandurar estate, Chennai, where students sit with the selection committee officials and make their choices. Online counselling is being offered by the Directorate General of Health Services in Delhi for allotment of seats in government colleges across the country under the all India quota and for central and deemed universities.
“Medical counselling will be similar to that,” Vijaya Baskar said. The department is also consulting Anna University and TNPSC for inputs.
Health minister C Vijaya Baskar said the selection committee was testing a software that would allow postgraduate aspirants to download and submit applications, lock their choice of courses and colleges, and download admit cards after seats are alloted based on NEET rank and rules of reservation. “We plan to launch it during postgraduate counselling in April. We expect at least 10,000 applications. It is more complex than MBBS because students will have to lock in their choice of courses as well as choice of colleges,” he told TOI. Compared to last year, government has hiked the number of PG seats in the state by nearly 40% to 1,758.
TN allowed to start 124 new PG medical courses
The state has recently received the Centre’s permission to convert 384 of its 396 diploma seats into degrees. In addition, the state has been allowed to start 124 new PG courses across 14 state-run medical colleges. With more than 11,000 students clearing PG NEET, the selection committee is expecting to see a large number of applications this year.
In May, the selection committee will also extend the online facility to MBBS counselling. “For the UG programme, students have to lock colleges of choice. There will be at least 25,000 applicants and we are testing to see if this software can take the load,” said a senior official.
Until now, counselling for PG and UG medical courses in the state was being conducted at counselling centres such as the government multi-speciality hospital at the Omandurar estate, Chennai, where students sit with the selection committee officials and make their choices. Online counselling is being offered by the Directorate General of Health Services in Delhi for allotment of seats in government colleges across the country under the all India quota and for central and deemed universities.
“Medical counselling will be similar to that,” Vijaya Baskar said. The department is also consulting Anna University and TNPSC for inputs.
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