Relief for MBBS aspirants on selection of seats

Mumbai: MBBS aspirants across the country were in a fix all of Saturday. As their admissions were on, many of them, after bagging a seat in the central round conducted by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), were trying their luck for a local college in their respective states. However, all day, they tried to cancel their admissions and surrender the seat allocated under the central round, but the MCC portal had closed the option to surrender their seats. They got some relief late evening.

“Students who filled their choices in the state government’s first round have been allocated seats in local colleges that are closer home. So many of them wanted to give up the seat they were allotted in the central government’s round, especially many who got into deemed universities. But colleges refused to cancel admissions,” said parent representative Sudha Shenoy. “Students who got seats in state government medical colleges and private medical colleges were keen to cancel their seats in deemed universities,” she added.

The MCC allocates seats for 15 per cent all-India quota, for seats in AIIMS, JIPMER and in deemed medical universities of India.

However, late on Saturday, the MCC stated it had received many requests from candidates/ institutes for resignation from the seat allotted in round-1 of undergraduate counselling 2023, “since some states have declared their round-1 results of state counselling yesterday.” MCC permitted students to resign from round-1 seats till Monday, 3 pm.

Moreover, in Maharashtra, several colleges that faced deficiencies and could not participate in the first round of seat allocation conducted by the state CET cell filed their fresh report with the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences. About 900 medical seats were missing from the first merit-cum-allotment list released on Friday morning by the state CET cell. The missing seats made up for almost 12 per cent of the total 7,344 medical seats. A circular issued by the cell later in the evening said that these colleges did not possess the requisite permissions, and that these seats would be added to the pool in the subsequent admission rounds.

But by Saturday, sources said three colleges had cleared their deficiencies and the remaining would submit their affidavit by Tuesday.